Munro Notes on Lucretius - By Section
These are H. A. J. Munro’s critical notes (“Notes 1”) on the Latin text of Lucretius, arranged by book and line. Each note records where a reading in Munro’s text comes from: which manuscript has it, which editor first proposed a correction, and which readings Munro rejects. The opening essay to these notes, with Munro’s explanation of all the abbreviations, is on the companion page, Munro Notes on Lucretius - General.
How to read a note: the word or words that come first are the reading of Munro’s text; what follows names its source and the rejected readings. Thus “16 pergis Nicc. A corr. etc. for tergis” means that at line 16 Munro reads pergis*, which is found in Niccoli’s manuscript and in the corrected Leyden folio, where the original manuscripts have* tergis*. The most frequent abbreviations: A and B, the two Leyden manuscripts (A the folio, B the quarto); “corr.” a later corrector of a manuscript; Nicc., Niccoli’s copy; Flor., Camb., Vat., manuscripts at Florence, Cambridge and the Vatican; Ver., Ven., Ald., Junt., early printed editions; Pont., Mar., Lamb., Wak., Lach., Bern., the editors Pontanus, Marullus, Lambinus, Wakefield, Lachmann and Bernays; Ed., Munro himself; “notes 2”, his explanatory commentary.*
Line numbers follow Lachmann’s numbering, as Munro’s do, and each note can be linked by book and line, for example #3-830 for Book III, line 830. Where Munro gives more than one note on the same line, all of them follow the one link. Translations on this site that use the same numbering can be read alongside: see Munro’s translation and the Latin text.
Source: Munro’s fourth edition, Volume I: Text (1900), where these notes are printed at the foot of each page of the Latin text. The text was prepared from a new scan reading of that volume and checked against the volume’s older text layer; line numbers that the scan misread were corrected from the page images. The italics of the printed notes, which set off the Latin readings, are not reproduced, and scattered misreadings of the Latin may remain.
Contents
Section titled “Contents”Book I
Section titled “Book I”11 genitabilis. genitalis has no authority, but it does not appear to be ‘typographi Veronensis peccatum’, as I found it in Vat. 1136 Othobon.
14 15: Niccoli followed by all the Flor. mss. Camb. etc. has these verses in the right order.
14 Wak. proposes fere which is indeed rather the ms. reading.
After 15 the v. Illecebrisque tuis omnis natura animantum is inserted in the Juntine and in most subsequent editions, not however by Naugerius in Aldine 2, as Lachmann incorrectly states. It has been generally assigned to Marullus, but as I found it in the margin of Flor. xxxv 29, for reasons given above p. 8 I attribute it to Angelo Politian. Victorius however inserts it among what profess to be solely Pontanus’ conjectures; though he has not written it in the same style, nor apparently at the same time, as the rest: it is possible then that Pontanus or he may have got it from Politian’s ms. Marullus in marg. Mon. for capta proposes quodque: this Victorius in his copy of Marullus’ corrections first wrote down, and afterwards erased, because I presume the line of the Juntine rendered it unnecessary: a strong indication that he got this v. from Junt. a copy of which now in the Munich library he has filled with elaborate notes of his own: his spelling too of amneis in his second copy of Ven. shews he took it from Junt.; as Pontanus and Marullus recognise only -es or -is. Again Lambinus who evidently had access to ms. notes of Pontanus as stated above, says distinctly in a passage already quoted in p. 8 ‘neque eum Naugerius neque Pontanus habuerunt’: what he there says of Marullus is mere report. Nicc. and the Italians having changed in 16 quamque into cunque had rendered the sentence unintelligible without some addition.
16 pergis Nicc. A corr. etc. for tergis.
27 ornatum A corr. Priscian etc. for oralatum.
32 fera moenera Lamb. for feram onera. moenia scholiast of Statius.
33 regit Nicc. scholiast of Statius for regium.
34 Reicit B Gottorp. Reficit A Nicc. Camb. Pontanus etc, — devictus. devinctus Pont. Lamb. and scholiast of Statius,
35 Nicc. rightly gives tereti for teriti.
43 desse A corr. Nicc. for id esse.
44—49 — I 646—651. Is. Vossius in his ms. notes in my possession well observes that some one has inserted them here ‘ut ostenderet Lucret. sibi adversari qui, cum Deos mortalia non curare affirmat [sic], Veuerem tamen invocet’. Pont. Mar. Junt. omit them. Avancius in the text of Ald. 1 places them after 61 and has been followed by most editors before Lach.; but in his preface he well observes ‘unum affirmare ausim Omnis enim cum quinque sequentibus ex prologo, cum abundent, demendos esse: hos aptius legas, cum de magna matre agit ‘.
50 Quod superest, vacuas auris animumque sagacem: so Bernays in Rhein. Mus, n. f. v p. 559 from the interpr. Verg. in Maii class. auet. t. vir p. 202. Quod superest ut vacuas auris AB. Nicc. followed by all the Flor. Camb. Mon. and most mss. and all the old editions omitted ut and added mihi, Memmius, et te. Lamb. Memmiada. At the end of Junt. is proposed vacuas mihi quaeso Memmius aures Semotus curis: Pont. gives Quod superest quaeso vacuas mihi Memmius auris. Lach. has rightly seen that our reading implies the loss of one or more verses in which the poet passed from Venus to Memmius: he suggests animumque, age, Memmi, which would complete the sentence in à way: so would corque, inclute Memmi, or the like.
66 tollere. tendere Lamb. ed. 3 Lach. from Nonius ‘teste nostris antiquiore’. But where our mss. give, as here, a faultless reading, it seems uncritical to prefer that of such 8 careless writer as Nonius: older and better authorities than he is continually misquote: Seneca in 57 has quoque for quove, Gellius in 304 aut for et, 306 Nonius candenti for dispansae in, II 13 Lactantius stultas for miseras, 1001 fulgentia for rellatum.
68 fama. fana Bentl. and Lach. who says ‘fama non omnis necessario magna est’: fana may be right: see V 75; but fama deum seems to me more emphatic and the deum to be equivalent to an epithet.
70 effringere Priscian and also I find Flor. 29 Vat. 1136 Othob. Mon. p. m. for confringere, rightly no doubt. virtutem animi confringere Nicc.
71 cupiret Prise. A corr. for cuperet.
74 omne A corr. Flor. 28 and 32 for omnem.
77 quanam A corr. for quantum.
84 Triviai Prisc. for Triviat.
85 Iphianassai A corr. Avanc. for Iphianassa. Iphianasseo Nicc. all Flor. Camb. all Vat. etc.
104 possunt Mar. Junt. for possum. As A and the Italians have iam, B and Gott. me, I once thought the right reading might be a me fingere possum: see Cambridge Journal of philology 1 p. 42 and Lucr. III 271,
111 timendumst Orelli eclog. in notes, Lach. for timendum.
121 edens. eidem Lach. without cause.
122 permaneant. permanent Ang. Politian in marg. of Flor. 29, Ver. Ven. Ald. 1 Junt. etc. followed by all before Lach. perveniant Mar.
126 Coepisse et B corr. Flor. 31 for Coepisset.
130 tum Flor. 25 and 31 Camb. p. m. Mar. for tunc.
141 quemvis sufferre Flor. 32 in margin, Heinsius in ms. notes, and Faber for quemvis efferre. [So perhaps Cic. epist. viir I 2 we should read sermones suppressit: expressit M.] Dion. Cat. distich. r1 6 has quemvis sufferre laborem, perhaps taken from this. — 155—158 Mar. Junt. and margin of Camb. have these vs. in right order, and et for utin 157. Avancius et, and at end of his edition of Catull. 1502 has rightorder. et Pont.also.
161—164 are rightly thus punctuated by Lach. I find however from his proof sheets that until the final revision he had with Wak. put a stop after volucres and armenta, and none after caelo. Lamb. puts a colon after pecudes and alters tenerent to teneret.
168 certa A corr. Nicc. for derta.
176 quia Flor. 31 Camb. superser. for qui.
176 Vites. Uvas Pont.
177 creatur A corr. Nicc. for orcatu.
185 si e nilo. e nihilo si Junt. Lamb. etc. not Mar.: so 291 cum flumen. flumen cum Lamb.; II 36 si in plebeia. si plebeia in Mon. Junt. and Lamb.: in all eases against mss. and the usage of Lucretius.
189 the homoeoteleuton has probably caused a v. of this kind to drop out: tempore certo, Res quoniam crescunt omnes de s. c. Lach. awkwardly ut par est semine certo Crescere, resque genus. Crescendo Mar. Junt. Lamb. etc.
207 possint Pont. Ald. 1 Junt. for possent: a change which will often have to be made: mss. are more apt to put possent for possint than vice versa.
215 quicque Lamb, for quicquid.
230 I follow the mss.: mare, ingenuei Lach. and Ed. in ed. 1. externaque. extentaque Lach. longe. large Bern. and Ed. in ed. 1.
240 nexu Mon. Junt. for nexus. Lamb. ed. 1 and 2 nexas (nexus ed. 1 is a misprint) and indupedite; ed. 3 nexus…endopedita.
257 pingui Iun. Philargyrius to Virg. geor. I 124 for pinguis, as Heyne there notices.
264 adiuta A corr. Nicc. for adluta.
271 portus all Vat. Flor. 29 and 31 Flor. 30 corr. Camb. for cortus. pontum Mar. Politian in marg. of Flor. 29, Junt. and apparently Nicc. cautes Lach. which is very weak.
274 ‘saevit, Marul. says Gifanius: and so Mar. corrects in Mon.; but Junt. has rightly sternit.
281 quam Lach. for quem. quod Flor. 30 corr. Pont. Mar. Junt.
286 turbidus A corr. Nicc. for turbibus.
289 quiequid Ed. for quidquid: no further change is required: see notes 2: ruitque ita quidquid Lach. ruitque aqua q. Ed. formerly.
291 rapide Lach. for rapidi which Wak. absurdly retains. rapidoque rotantia Lamb. ed. 1 and 2 rapidoque rotanti ed. 3.
304 et. aut Gellius V 15: but all mss. and Seneca Tertull. Nonius have et.
313: Isidor. Orig. xx 14 1 ‘Vomer ..de quo Lucretius Uneus aratri Ferreus occulto decrescit vomer in arvis Sumitque per detrimenta fulgorem’ (not ‘nitorem ?). It is odd if the last words are Isidore’s own: is a line of this kind lost, Sumitque ipse suum per detrimenta nitorem?
321 speciem. spatium Lach.: but see notes 2: ‘lege videndo’ Bentl.
334 Bentl. says ‘dele vers.; and Lach. shews that sense and grammar prove him to be right. Spengel in the Muenchn. Gel. Anz. and others do not mend the matter by placing it after 345.
349 flent Nicc. fient AB: 386 fiat. flat AB:; 319 alunt AB: 449 civent AB: 580 civeant AB: this confusion of ! and i is perpetual. In the small Roman capital, of the Medicean of Virgil for instance, in which some ancestor of our mss. must have been written, these letters are often undistinguishable.
356 possint Ed. for possent: by changing the punctuation of 357 I have made the sentence quite plain. Madvig emend. Livianae p. 302 n. ‘possem possim, posset possit perpetuo errore permutantur’, and p. 550 ‘possent. Scribendum possint. non aberratur fere, ut saepe dixi, nisi ubi una littera formae distant; esset pro sit seriptum non reperias’. See 207; and below 593 597 and 645, in all which places I have written possint for possent. Whether with Pont. Junt. Lamb. Lach. etc. you punctuate Quod m. i. sint, q. possent c. q. Transire h. u. f. r. v., or with Gif. Creech Wak. etc. Quod, n. i. $. q. p. c. q. Transire, h. u. f. r. v., in either case you get hardly grammar or sense: in 357 B and Gott. for fieri have valerent which appears to come from ulla twice written and FIEREI: yet Bernays in 356 reads qua corpora quaeque valerent for qua possent c. q.
366 At Flor. 30 corr. (cod. Nicc.) and Flor. 31 for aut.
367 vacui minus Pont. Junt. Lamb. etc. for vacuim minus B. and Gott. vacuum Wak. Lach. etc. retain with A, the Ital. and Camb. mss.
384 concursu Gott. p. m, Flor. 30 corr, 31, Pont. Mar. Junt. for concurso.
389 quemque. quenque Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for quisque.
391 Creech supposes some vss. to be lost after this v.
395 denserier A corr. Flor. 31 for condenserier.
404 ferai Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. etc. for ferare. ferarum A corr.
411 de plano Flor. 31 Mar. Junt. for deptano.
412 magnis A corr. Nicc. all the Ital. Camb. etc. for magnes of A p.m. amnes B and Gott. and also same A corr.; whence Bentl. and Bern. read largis haustos e. f. amnis, making 3 changes. magneis Heins. in ms, notes.
428 quoquam. quaquam Ven. Ald. 1 Lamb. etc.: but see notes 2.
434 434 rightly transposed by Lach.: centuries before him Flor. 32 in margin had this note, ‘videtur proponere tantum de corpore, dicendo Augmine vel etc.; non enim conveniunt illa nisi corpori. eum tamen de inani quoque intellexisse appareat, ex illo Sin intactile erit etc. advertendum diligentius’. Then at bottom ‘si legatur Nam quodcumque…Cui st tactus… Augmine vel…Corporis… patebit sermo’.
442 possunt. possint Flor. 31 Camb. etc. I now retain the ms. reading: see notes 2 to this v. and II 901 ita ut debent. — 451 nusquam. nunquam Ver. Ven. and eds. before Lach. wrongly: comp. Aen. V 852 clavumque…Nusquam amittebat, and Conington there. permitiali AB rightly: see notes 2. perniciali vulg. and Lach.
453 sazist Lach. sazi est Wak. for saxis.
454 Lach. has proved to be spurious, as a nomin. ?ntactus cannot exist, and the datives are not consistent with the genitives of 453: Lamb, reads saxis, calor, ignibw, liquor aquai: but Lucr. never uses a dat. in ai.
455 divitiae A corr. Nicc. for diviae.
458 eventa the same for evento.
465 Troiiugenas, 476 Troiianis, 477 Graiiugenarum Lach. with A (477 Graliug. A): see Quintil. I 4 11 ‘sciat etiam Ciceroni placuisse, aiio Maiiamque geminata i scribere’; and Priscian inst. VII 19, who rightly says that in the oldest writings you find eiius Pompeiius Vulteiius Gaiius and the like: often so in extant inscriptions: see too Ribbeck prol. Verg. p. 138, Studemund Rbein. mus. xx1 p. 588, and Corssen 1 p. 18.
467 fuerunt Gott. rightly for fuerit of AB. fuere Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb, etc.
469 Teucris Ed. for terris. per sest Lach. saeclis Bern. rebus Lamb. terris and legionibus Wak.
480 cluere B corr. Flor. 30 corr. Camb. for luere. constet A Nicc. constat B Gott,
484 quae B corr. Camb. corr. for qua.
486 Stinguere AB. Stringere A corr. Nicc. and all later mss. and eds. before Lach.: but Flor. 30 has Stinguere in marg.
489 fulmen A corr. B corr. Nicc. corr. for Aumen. Lach. strangely reads caelum, p. s. domorum Cl. it, as if the air, like a stone wall, were a good instance of a very solid thing: all mss. have caeli and ut. ac Avanc, first for ad.
491 ferventia Mar. Junt. and Lamb. ed. 1 for ferventi.
492 tum Brix. Ver. Ven. for cum.
500 constent B corr. for constet.
504 rerum longe. ‘leg. longe rerum’ Bentl.
517 inane queat rerum seems quite right. inane in rebu queat Lach. tectum Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. Lamb. ed. 1 and 2, verum Bern. for rerum.
520 esset A corr. Avanc. for est. siquidem nil est Nicc. vocaret is the old form: see notes 2. vacaret Lach.
525 Distinctumst, quoniam Lamb. most rightly for Distinctum quoniam which Lach. retains beginning the apodosis with sunt ergo in 526. Ald. 1 and Junt. seem to take distinctum for distinctum est and to understand the passage rightly.
527 pleno Mar. Ald. 1 and Junt. for poena, and inane for inani.
533 findi Flor. 31 Mon. Ver. Ven. for fundi.
542 que renata Lamb. for quaeranta.
551—627: Junt. puts 577—583 after 627, and 551—564 after 583. At the end of his edition Candidus says ‘Marulli nos hoc loco ordinem, atque item alibi in plerisque, ubi immutatum quid offenderis, secutos esse’; and so Marullus himself in the eod, Victor.: but he appears from Flor. 30 to have got the suggestion from Niccoli himself. The learned annotator of Flor. 32 says in the margin to 550 that some put 551—564 after 576, and adds ‘verum Marullo parum referre videtur quomodo legatur’, shewing again that there were different traditions about Marullus. Lamb. places only 577—583 after 627. All these transpositions are utterly wrong, though Candidus says of Marullus ‘quem profecto, si ad amussim rem quanque examinabis, neutiquam (sie opinor) repudiaveris’. Sauppe, Christ and others likewise transpose in various ways these much-tortured vss.: the misapprehension of 599—0634 is at the bottom of such causeless changes.
553 foreut B corr. Nicc. for fovent.
555 ad auctum Ed. These words came at the end of page 23 of the archetype from which all mss. are derived, aud therefore were at the outside margin and, as has happened in so many cases, were torn away by some accident. Some one then filled up the verse with finis which occurs three times at the end of a line in the next thirty verses. Lach. keeps finis and for summum reads summa whieh he thus awkwardly explains, ‘summa, hoc est universo vivendi actu, aetatis pervadere fines, per omne vitae spatium radere’. summum…florem Mar. Junt. Lamb. ed. 1 and 2, Creech etc. which Lach. proves could only mean ‘pass through’ not ‘arrive at the flower’. summum…finem Flor. 30 corr. Ver. Ven. Lamb. ed. 3, Wak, etc. This is doubly wrong, as finis in Lucretius is always feminine.
562 quamque videmus B corr. Nicc. for quamque demus.
566 possit Eid. for possint, a corruption which constant and omnia almost inevitably caused. [Sauppe I am glad to see has fallen on the same conj. independently of me, as ne makes no mention even of my ed. of 1860.] Lach. puts 568 after 585, where it is wholly out of place; Bentl. ejects it; Mar. and Junt. read fiunt and geruntur; and fiant in 567. Lamb. Creech etc. cumque gerantur: all corrupting the text and making Lucretius assert the absurd truism that all things which do become soft can become soft.
578 quaeque. quaedam Lamb. and Lach.
585 crescendi Ver. Ven. for crescendis.
588 commutatur B corr. Nicc. for comitatur. constant. constent Lach.
591 inmutabili Lach. first for inmutabiles. inmutabile Flor. 31 Flor. 30 corr. vulgo absurdly.
593 and 597 possint Ed. for possent; which constet in 594 proves to be necessary: see 356 and note there: here too possint easily becomes possent, though constet does not pass into constaret so readily.
599—634: this passage which is difficult, but not corrupt, has been sadly mutilated by all editors from Lambinus to Lachmann and Bernays, who all in different ways force on Lucretius a succession of absurd and self-contradictory assertions, There seems after 599 to be a hiatus such as this Corporibus, quod iam nobis minimum esse videtur, Debet item ratione pari minimum esse cacumen Corporis cet.: besides this illarum for illorum in 611 is the sole change I have made, two or three slight and obvious errors of AB having been corrected in the later mss. or older editions:
599 for quoniam Lach. quianam, Bern. quod iam:
600 for illius Lach. and Bern. ullius. Lamb. quoniam ext. quoiusque c. Cor. est aliquod: 611 Lach. wilorum after Ald. 1 Junt. Lamb. etc.: 628 and 631 Lamb. followed by all subsequent editors perversely reads ni for si, multis for nullis.
603 nulla Flor. 31 Ver. Ven. etc. for ulla. ut nequeant ulla B corr. which may be right.
613 iam Flor. 31 Ver. Ven. etc. for tam.
626 constent Ald. Junt. for constant.
634 quae res Mar. Junt. for quas res.
645 cur possint esse requiro,…si sunt Ed. for cur possent? requiro etc.: comp. above 356 593 and 597.
646 uno B corr. Turnebus Lamb. ed. 3, Lach. for uro. vero A corr. Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. Vat. Lamb. ed. 1 and 2, Creech.
649 haberent Nicc. for haberet A, habere D Gott.
651 disiectis disque A corr. Flor. 30 corr. for disiectisque.
657 nasci Ed. for muse A, mu B Gott. This word was the last in p. 27 of the archetype and therefore on the outside margin, and as in many other cases had become partly illegible. mussant Flor. 31 Camb. Pont. Lamb. ed. 2 and 3, etc. without sense. multi Mar. Junt. Lamb. ed. 1, etc. inesse Flor. 30 corr. Ver. Ven. Ald. 1 Candidus at end of Junt. Memmi Heins. in ms. notes. ‘amusoe i.e. (uoveot? Is. Voss. in ms. notes. adesse Lach. amussim Bern. ‘jllud Lucretio Bernaysius restituens cedet hodie nisi fallor H. Munroni nasci emendanti’ Ritschl opusc. 11 p. 272.
659 vera viai A corr. for ver aula.
660 inani Flor. 30 corr. Mar. Junt. for inane.
662 raptim Pont. Avanc. for raptis. ‘quidam raptim agnoscunt. Marullus natum’ Candidus at end of Junt. and so Flor. 30 corr. and Mar. in cod. Vict.
665 alia Lach. rightly for mia. ulla Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. etc. una Nicc. etc.
666 coetu stingui Pont. Turneb. Lamb. ed. 2 and 3, etc. for coetus stingui. mutare Mar. Junt. for musare. Ver. Ven. Mar. Ald. 1 Lamb. ed. 1 have absurdly in coetus stringi massareque corpus; and Flor. 31 Camb. mussare.
668 funditus B corr. for funditur. ardor A corr. Nicc. for arbor.
674 vigescat Heins. in notes and Lach. for vivescat: comp. 757. wirescat Nicc. vulg.
680 decedere Lamb. Lach. etc. for descendere. discedere A corr. Mar. Junt. etc.
681 alia Mar. Lamb. most rightly for alio which Lach. retains. Candidus at end of Junt. ‘alio pro alii positum. sunt qui alia legunt’, i.e. Mar.
683 crearent Lamb. first for crearet.
690 ignem B corr. for iq. nem.
703 quidvis Lach. summam Nicc. and all before Lach. AB Gott. omit the word, which must be uncertain.
708 putarunt Nicc. B corr. for putantur B, A corr., putant A p. m.
710 vertier B corr. Nicc. for verti.
711 longe derrasse Vat. 3275, and unless I err 1136 Othob., for longi derrasse of B Gott. A corr. longi errasse A p. m. longeque errasse Nicc. etc.
720 undis. undans Lach, almae Bern., without cause. Priscian I 35 confirms undis.
721 Italiae Nicc. for Haeliae. Haeoliae A corr. Aeoliae Heins. in ms. notes and Is. Vossius who says in ms. notes ‘mss. habent Haeoliae vel 4eoliae. Puto olim sic dictam eam partem Italiae quam inhabitavit Jocastes Aeoli filius qui ad fretum Sieulum habitabat: vid: Diodorum hb. 5. [ch. 8] G. V. Thus Preiger and Lachmann’s doubt is solved. Havere, and Wak. also adopt this reading of Gerard father of Is. Vossius.
724 vis ut vomat Lamb. ed. 3 for vis ut omniat. ut vis evomat ed. 1 and 2 after Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. etc.
725 Heins. in ms. notes ‘leg. sursum’, to avoid the repetition of rursum.
737 adyto Nicc. for adito. — 739 profatur A corr. Nicc. for prosatur.
741 casu A corr. Nicc. for causa.
744 frugis AB Flor. 31 etc. not Nicc.: so IV 577 and 992 vocis AB. fruges Lach. and l. L voces: he says *[membranas] quamvis consentientes imitari ausus non sum hoc loco, ubi habent frugis, neque in IV 577 991 1000, ubi vocis; quamquam apud Nonium p. 149 16 e Varrone scriptum est pacis, et Manilii exemplaria in II 446 habent lucis’. But Varro de ling. Lat. IX 76 observes ‘frugi rectus est natura fruz, at secundum consuetudinem dicimus ut Aaec avis, haec ovis, sic haec frugis’. I have no doubt then that the accus. plur. frugis and vocis come from Lucr. as well as religionis and the like; and that an abl. frugi was possible. Augustus in the monum, Anoyr. n1 2 has consulis acc. plur.
747 faciunt Flor. 31 Camb. for fucient.
748 quicquam Mar. Ald. 1 and Junt. for qui. quire Flor. 31 Camb. Vat. 1136 Othob. which may be right.
752 in illis I have added; and these must I think be the actual words of the poet: see Camb. Journ. of phil. 1 p. 29. prorsum Lach. who quite misunderstands the argument. rebus Nicc. and all before Lach.
755 utqui of mss. is quite right: see notes 2. Lach. reads 753 utei for item, and here funditus usque.
758 habebis A corr. Nicc. etc. for habes. habebas Lamb. vulg. wrongly.
759 veneno Wak. Lach. forvene. venena Flor. 31 Camb. vulgo: this l. ended p. 31 of the lost archetype; and therefore these four mutilated endings of verses were on the outer margin.
767 Alternis A corr, for Aternis.
769 =762, repeated without meaning.
772 ut B corr. Flor. 31 Camb. for et.
774 animans Pont. Mar. Junt. for animas.
775 quicque in coetu Mar. Junt. for quisque in coetum.
776 ostendet Flor. 31 Avanc. for ostendit.
777 atq. ardor cum rore Lamb. acutely for et quodam cum rore.
778 rebus oportet. rebu! necessest Lach. Bern. without any necessity: if Ennius Accius Seneea Catullus, Virgil in his eclognes, Propertius Ovid and others can use the word, it is not too prosaic for Lucr.
780 Emineat Naugerius first for demineat.
781 creatur A corr. for creatas.
784 785 hinc imbrem, ex imbri, a terra Mar. Ald. 1 and Junt. for hinc ignem, ex igni, in terram: the change is peremptorily required: Catullus 62 7 imbres mss. for ignes.
789 pacto Mon. Ald. 1 Junt. for facto.
806 ut Prise. for et of mss.: this change of a letter, as Bern. has seen, gives imbribus to the preceding sentence and completely restores the fine passage, which Lach. deplorably disfigures by transposing 806 and 807 and changing arbusta into ambusta, as if rain forsooth could like ‘frost perform the effect of fire’. Lamb. and Gif. ed. 1 et…vacillant, the vulgate. Gif. ed. 2 keeps et…vacillent of mss, and says ‘q. v. Marull. et vulg. focillant, q. v. vacillant, male’. Now Ald. 1 has et tabes…focillant. — Ver. Ven. read et tale…facillent, whence comes focillant. Marullus in eod. Victor. makes no change.
814 multa modis Lamb. for multimodis.
824 verbis Flor. 31 Camb. Vat. Pont. Mar. etc. for bellis: see Lach.
830 et. ut Lach.: in five other places he changes et, and in two gives a far-fetched interpretation, because he says Lucr. could not use et for etiam.
834 quom Lach. for quam. Lamb. reads Principium rerum quam and joins it with what precedes: he is followed by all before Lach. and may be right. ‘quid quod ita ne dixit quidem usquam Lucretius, sed rerum principia I 740 1047 II 789’says Lach. Yes, because his primordia are plural; but I 707 he writes Et qui principium gignundis aera rebus Constituere of those who have one first-beginning of things.
835 e Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for de.
839 810 aurique…aurum: as he immediately enumerates the three other elements, Bentl. proposes auraeque…auram. *5quid hic aurum? oculos credo inferpretum praestrinxit…Simplie. tamen [in Arist. phys. fol. 6 b] de Anaxag. mwdrra Tà Ópotouepí) olov TO Udwp 7) mÜp 7 xpvoóv etc.’ ‘This and other passages seem to defend the text: see notes 2: yet comp. 853.
841 ignis, umorem. ignem, umorem exz Lamb. and the plur, is awkward.
843 ulla parte idem Nicc. vulgo for ulla idem parte. wulla idem ex parte Lach. because Lucr. he says only omits the preposition when a genitive is added; but in rebus seems equivalent to one: comp. Juven. VI 457 Adque alia parte in trutina suspendit Homerum.
846 illi supra quos marg. Flor. 32 Ald. 1 Junt. for illis uira quod A, quo B Gott. illis juxta quod Camb. Vat. 1954 Othob. viris iurta quos Flor. 31 illis iuxta Ang. Politian in marg. Flor. 29.
847 inbecilla Flor. 31 Camb. for inbecilia.
852 effugiat B corr. Flor. 31 Pont. Mar. for eficiat.
853 sanguen an ossa marg. Flor. 32 Pont. Lamb. for sanguis an os. sanguis was unknown to Luecr.: IV 1050 sanguis unde; VI 1203 sanguis expletis: see Lach. and add Sen. Med. 776 and Val. Flace. I 234 sanguis. Flor. 31 does not as Lach. says read sanguis an, an es. sanguen os aurum Lach., an awkward and improbable correction. 860; the verse lost here Lamb. thus supplies, Et nervos alienigenis ex partibus esse; which must be very like what Lucr. wrote.
861 Sive Flor. 31 Camb. for Sine. corpore Nicc. for core.
866 sanieque. venisque Avanc. Lamb. Lach. wrongly: see notes 2: Avancius formed his text by correeting Ven. and it and Ver. have sanisque; hence venis. mizto Lach. after Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. Lamb. which have misto. miztim Politian in marg. Flor. 29, which may be right.
873 here there is I believe a hiatus of two or more verses, which I formerly supplied thus, Ex alienigenis quae tellure exoriuntur. Sic itidem quae ligna emittunt corpora, aluntur Ex cet.: comp. especially 859—866 and notes 2. In 874 I have added his after lignis. I hardly understand Lach. who reads quae alienigenis oriuntur: see also Luc. Mueller de re metrica p. 284, who seems to prove that a monosyll. diphthong is never elided before a short vowel. Mar. Junt. followed by Gif. Creech omit both 873 and 874, Lamb. followed by Wak. only 873; which seems absurd: he reads in 874 lignis exoriuntur with Flor. 31 Camb. etc.
882 cum saxi Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. etc. for cum in sazi.
884 885 rightly transposed by N. P. Howard: see notes 2 for explanation of the whole passage in which much needless change has been made:
884 iím om. Mar. Junt. etc. ‘recte, ut puto, etsi cur addita sit [praep. in] non intellego ‘ Lach. terimus Nicc. for tenemus.
885 herbis. herbas Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. Lach. vulgo.
886 latices. laticis Flor. 31 Camb. vulg. Lach. wrongly.
887 quali B, qualis A, quales A corr. Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. ubere. ubera Lamb.: the exact reading is uncertain.
890 inter terram Lach. first for in terram: older editors have blundered strangely.
893 res added by Nicc. B corr. etc.
900 flammai Pont. Junt. for Jiammae: a simple correction, yet overlooked by many of the later editors: even Nauger. has here deserted Junt. and reads fulserunt flammae fulgore after Nicc. etc.
909 contineantur Nauger. for contingantur, after Pont. seems to imply that apparently; for Victorius in his 2nd copy of Ven. continuantur of the first was his own error,
918 Hac Nicc. B corr. for Haec.
919 uti risu tremulo Nicc. for utiris ut aemulo.
932 animum. animos Lamb. Creech after Lactantius inst. I 16. Pius says ‘modulatius animos leges’. But IV 7 animum Lamb. animos Creech.
942 pacto Heins. in ms. notes and Lach. rightly for facto.
954 Necne sit Pont. Lamb. for nec sit.
957 vasteque Nicc. corrupted into adusque; his followers adusque into vel adusque; or, as Mar. marg. Flor. 32 Ald. Junt., patefiat ad usque.
971 Id validis Lamb. first for Invalidis. Flor. 32 and Mar. in margin explain invalidis as valde validis.
977 officiat Lamb. rightly and before him Gryphius of Lyons 1534 and 1510 for efficiat, after the constant usage of Lucr.: so Livy IV 31 5 Madvig after Faber reads offecit (mss. effecit) quominus. Lach. keeps efficiat. [But for eficiat see lex col. Genetivae II 4 7 neve quis facito, quo minus ita aqua ducatur.]
984—987 (998—1001) I have elsewhere proved should come in this place.
989 inclusum Nicc. for inclusus.
991 con/luxet Flor. 31 first for conflurit.
997 nullast Politian in marg. Flor. 29 Ver. Ven. Heins. in ms. notes for nullas.
998 possint Ald. 1 Junt. for possit.
1000 e supplied by Mon. and Lach. is better than in of Mar. and older editors. inferna is quite right: see Camb. Journ. of phil. 1 p. 33. Lach. wrongly follows Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. Lamb. etc. in reading aeternaque and adds ‘rei convenienter, quamvis secus videatur Wakefieldo et Forbigero, qui quotiens philosophantur delirant’: an insult quite out of place here.
1008 should commence a new paragraph.
1009 inani Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for inane.
1013 Madvig opusc. pr. p. 313 rightly supposes some verses lost here; and long before him Marullus did the same, as I find from the margin of Flor. 32: ‘credit Marullus deesse hic aliqua carmina, quae continerent transitum ab infinitate inanis ad infinitatem corporum; in his enim Nec mare nec tellus…procul dubio agit de infinitate corporum, cum supra [953] de utroque infinito se dieturum promiserit’: so that Flor. 32 gives here the more mature, at least the better judgment of Marullus; since the cod. Victor. has the same perverse corrections which Junt. has. Lach. rlaces the mark of hiatus after 1012, giving a most involved explanation of the passage: his arrangement moreover is scarcely grammatical, as pateat is thus answered in the apodosis by imperfects and pluperfects. Indeed the lacuna does not appear to me so great as it did either to Madvig or Lach.: the poet has not only shewn already that the omne quod est, but also 988 (984)—1007, that the omne quod est spatium is infinite: he now, 1008 foll, shews that matter is infinite. I formerly proposed roughly to supply what is wanting thus, Sed spatium supra docui sine fine patere. Si finita igitur summa esset materiai, Nec mare cet. — 1023 the last four words are rightly supplied by Mar. and Juut. from V 421: the mss. here repeat the last three of 1022, — Avancius blunders sadly, doubtless from not understanding what he is taking from others.
1028 rerum Faber and Bentl. from V 194 most rightly for rebus.
1033 summissaque Pont. Mar. Junt. for summaque.
1034 Floreat Flor. 31 Camb. etc. for ftoreant.
1040 Dissolui Nicc. B corr. for Dissoluit.
1041 viai B corr. vulgo for via. wviaque Lach.: but ratione viaque surely means ‘by method and system’: see Cic. de fin. I 29 ut ratione et via procedat oratio. — 1047 Principiis Mar. Junt, for principium.
1061 Et simili. Lach. reads Adsimili and joins with it the preceding verse, putting a full stop at posta. I think him quite wrong: the simile is exactly the same as IV 418, where also Lach. makes unnecessary changes,
1068—1075: these 8 mutilated verses came at the beginning of p. 45 of the archetype; and the ends were therefore at the outer margin. B and Gott. omit them altogether, but append a cross and vrr. Nicc. gives them imperfect as in A. The later mss. Ald. 1, Junt. after Mar., Lamb. complete them in various ways. I formerly suggested in 1068 error falsa probavit or error somnia finzit:
1070 quando omnia constant, or with Lach. ubi summa profundist:
1073 Lach. reads alio for alia, and proposes meare at end, and malle putari in 1072: he declines to prophesy in 1068 and 1069.
1074 Mar. Junt. most truly neque omnino si iam medium sit for denique omnino st iam.
1074 the end is supplied by Mar. Ald. 1 and Junt.
1075 debet Wak., oportet older corr.
1076 Aeque Junt. for aequis which Wak, absurdly defends.
1078 in added by Mar. Ald. 1 Junt.
1082 concilio Mar. Junt. for concilium, the m coming from medii. concilium…vectae Lach. which seems less poetical. wvinctae Bentl.
1085 1086 are transposed by Mar. and Junt. followed by all before Lach.: but Ussing, Tidsskr. for Philol. vi, has rightly seen that a v. is lost before 1085, which comparing VI 495 I would thus supply Et quae de supero in terram mittuntur ut imbres.
1094—1101: A has faithfully left a blank space for these eight lost verses: they came at the beginning of p. 46 of the lost archetype; the eight mutilated lines above having headed the page on the other side of the leaf; Lach. therefore most justly concludes that this part of the leaf in the original of our mss. was by some accident torn away. Both the old ms. collations of A and B which I possess mention this lacuna: Heinsius says ‘in A octo versuum hiatus erat relictus’: the less careful Vossius, though the manuscript was his own, merely says ‘vide ms. in quo hiatus post haec verba’. Think now of Havercamp, a Professor in the University where A and B then were, never noting this fact, but inserting the miserable makeshift verse of Mar. and Junt. Terra det: at supra circum tegere omnia caelum; stealing the critical note of the London bookseller’s edition, and stating that this spurious verse was not in B, from which every reader must inferit was in A. I formerly made the following verses to shew the general sense of those which are lost: Diffundat truncum ac ramos natura per omnis, Scilicet incerto diversi errore vagantes Argumenta sibi prorsum pugnantia fingunt. — Quae tamen omnia sunt falsa vatione recepta. Nam quoniam docui spatium sine fine modoque Inmensumque patere in cunctas undique partis, Sic parili ratione necessest suppeditetur Infinita etiam vis undique materiai, Ne cet. Pontanus saw that the passage was a fragment.
1105 penetralia Nicc. for tonetralia; rightly followed by all the old eds. before Lamb. who reads tonitralia: VI 865 sonitus all mss. for penitus: neither tonetralia nor tonitralia is Latin.
1108 abeat Ed. after Mar. Junt. for abeant wrongly adapted to the adjacent plural: comp. VI 286: omnis agrees with terra: comp. VI 605 sqq.: Lach. in 1106 reads omnia, as also II 719 without authority.
1114 sei Ed. after Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. Mon. etc. for sic: a verse is here lost which I feel sure was of this kind, Cetera iam poteris per te tute ipse videre, with which the preceding words parva perductus opella must be joined: Lucr. says it is hard to master his principles, but when that is thoroughly done, then led on with little trouble you may learn the rest yourself: comp. especially 400—417, and see Camb. Journ. of phil. 1 p. 374. Lach. for sic reads scio and perdoctus for perductus, and then gets no satisfactory sense: Mar. and Junt. read non for nec in 1115: Lamb. perfunctus for perdoctus: Dern. sis, and perdoctus after Lach.
Book II
Section titled “Book II”5 and 6 rightly transposed by Avancius.
12 praestante plabore AB. praestantes prae labore Nicc. p. m.
16 nonne videre AB Gott. which Gif., followed tacitly by Lamb. ed. 3, has most propexly retained. veidere est was the common reading, which Lach. shews Lucr. eould not have written, ‘videtis Marul? says Gif.: and in cod. Victor. Marullus p. m. videtis; s. m. videre est, as Junt.: videtis Ald. 1, and this is mentioned as a var. lec. at end of Junt.: so also Lamb. ed. 1, but videre est ed. 2.
17—19 mss. are quite right: see notes 2:
17 utqui. ut cui Avanc. Lach, wut quoi Gif.
18 mente. meniv Lach. without cause.
19 semota. semotw’ Lamb. in notes, Gif. Bentl. Lach. for semota.
21 22 23 see notes 2 for the explanation of this passage which I have corrected by a better punctuation.
27 fulget auroque. fulgenti Lach. But comp. V 1049 sciret animoque, where Lachmann’s scirent perverts the meaning. fulgens, renidens Macrob. sat. VI 2 Pont. Avanc. Junt. etc. fulgens renidet Mar. P. Crinitus de hon. dise. xvix 6.
28 citharae. citharam Maerob. sat. VI 2, cithara id. VI 4. aurataque. ornataque Lach. arquataque Bern. tecta Lach. for templa, and Macrob. sat. VI 4, but VI 2 tempe, which comes perhaps from the preceding passage of Virgil: yet the templa of the mss. of Lucr. may have a technical meaning. [But for tecta and templa confused see O. Hirschfeld untersuch. p. 149, and p. 187 n. 4.]
36 lacteris. Iactaris Lamb. ed. 2 and 3.
41 Fervere Flor. 30 corr. Flor. 31 Camb. for Fruere A, Eruere B.
40—46: this passage I think I have arranged 1nuch better than Laeh. or Bern.:
42 et ecum vi (etecuvi) Ed. for epicuri: comp. tariter of mss. for pariter in 48:
43 Ornatasq. armis statuas pariterque Ed. for Ornatas armis itastuas (4tasiuas B Gott.) tariterque: then Fervere cum videas classem lateque vagari, which is not found in our mss. but is quoted by Nonius p. 503 from Lucretius lib. 11, is clearly in its right place after 46, not 43, where Lach. and others have put it: I have also put a stop after pavide in 45. For statuas corrupted into itastuas comp. Lach. to IV 283, and istatuam for statuam in Orelli inseript. 1120. Because Lucr. V 1227 has Induperatorem classis super aequora verrit Cum validis pariter legionibus atque elephantis, Lach. says ‘apparet haec ita legenda esse, Subsidiis magnisque elephantis constabilitas, Ornatas armis, validas, pariterque animatas?, — The apparet is anything but clear to me. Bern. reads hastatis for epicuri, pariter for itastuas. See Lach. on the way these two verses are written in AB: Nicc. omits them: later mss. Flor. 31 Camb. etc. treat them as a heading: the old eds. to Ald. 1 and Pius inclusive have them variously corrupted. Junt. first omits them in text with this note at end, ‘Subsidiis magnis Epicuri constabilitas. Marullus carmen hoc expungit. Nam illud, ornatas armis statuas, stanteisque animatas, procul dubio subditicium est’: and in cod. Vietor. Marullus does expunge them. All subsequent eds. before Lach. omitted them, except Gif. who mixes up a portion of them with a part of the line from Nonius in this fashion, Fervere cum videas; classem lateque vagari, Ornatamque armis belli simulacra cientem. Lamb. ed. 3 first gives the l. from Nonius in full.
46 pectus Lamb. for tempus: a necessary change. Aen. I 46 tempore Probus for pectore.
52 purpureai Nicc. for purpura.
53 Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. Lamb. omne sit hoc rationis egestas, perversely.
54 laboret Nicc. B corr. for raboret,
56 sic, as in III 88 VI 36. ita Senec. epist. 110, shewing what little reliance ean be placed on such citations: comp. n. to I 66.
68 quamque videmus Nicc. B corr. for quamquidemus.
73 augmine B corr. Nicc. corr. for agnine.
84 ferri Nicc. B corr. for terri.
85 nam cum (quom) cita Wak. for nam cita. cita superne Nicc. concita saepe Flor. 31 Camb.
86 conflixere ut Avanc. Lamb. in notes for conflexere. confluxere Nicc. etc. cum flirere Lamb. for uti. ita uti Flor. 31 Camb. etc.
88 tergo ibus Is. Vossius in ms. notes invita Is. (not Preiger) most rightly for tergibus.
95 nulla Nicc. for multa. Vossius in ms, notes.
98 confulta mss. and so Pont. Avanc. Pius Naugerius. consulta Ver. Ven. Gif. conflicta 2 Vat. Mar. Junt. Lamb. ed. 1 and 2, Wak. Creech. contusa Lamb, ed. 3. conpulsa Heins. in ms. notes.
99 brevibus Nicc. for brevius.
112 memoro rei Vat. 1706 Reg. (‘olim Nicolai Heinsii’) Pont. Avanc. vulg. for memoror rei.
118 proelia pugnas: so IV 1009. proelia pugnasque Camb. Nicc. corr. Mar. Junt. wrongly.
125 magis haec. ‘Marull. eontra v. l. seripserat, huc’ Gif.: both Ald. 1 and Junt. have mage ad hoc; but over haec in eod. Vietor. was once written a word carefully erased, as some mark under haec has been, quite confirming Gif.: see above p. 9.
134 conciliatu Nicc. for conciliata.
137 Ipsaque proporro Turneb. advers. V 27 Lach. for Ipsaque porro. Ipsaque quae Camb. vulg. Ictaque quae Flor. 31.
152 quasi dum diverberet, quod sol diverberat Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. vulg. Lamb. ed. 1. quasi tum diverberet Lamb. ed. 2, quasi dum diverberat ed. 3, as Pont. before, ‘pessime’ says Lach.: ‘nam dum intellegendum est donec’. But in my opinion, though the subj. is quite right, Lamb. well defends the indie. which is also tenable.
155 se retrahuntur Priscian for se trahuntur.
158 remoratur Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for remoravit.
159 ipsa, suis e partibus una, Unum Ed. for ipsa suis e partibus unum Unum: the contrast with 153—156 shews this to be necessary: comp. also I 599 etc.: the repetition of unum unum has here no force whatever.
160 conira. conexa mss. connira Ver. Ven. followed by Nauger. and vulgo: it should be coniza.
165—183 Lach. has most justly marked off from the context, as interrupting the argument, though indisputably written by Lucretius: some verses too have clearly been lost before 165: as Pontanus has seen, who says ‘fragmentum”: Marullus supplied the unmeaning Nam meque consilio debent tardata morari, which became the vulgate. Bern. puts 167 before 165, and in 166 reads persectati, and supposes no lacuna.
166 Ut videant Nicc. for Ut deant.
168 numine credunt Ed. for numine reddi, and Pont. I now find: the e of numine has absorbed the c, and redunt in mss. much resembles reddi. rentur Mar. Junt. vulgo ‘prorsus egregie’ says Lach, Wak. absurdly defends reddi.
169 has been much tampered with in the vulg. eds. without any reason.
181 tanta stat praedita Lach., as in the repetition V 199, for quamquam predita. quae tanta est praedita Pont. Junt. vulgo, which may be right. Wak. adopts the interpolation of Nicc. quamquam haec sint praedita, and gives a ludierous explanation of it.
187 fraudem. frudem B: see VI 187.
193 subigente Lamb. Creech Lach. for subiecta. subeunte Bern. which is hardly so near the ms. reading: see Madvig emend. Liv. p. 210.
194 Quod genus e mostro. Quod genus est Lach. justly blamed by Madvig Lat. gram. ed. 3 p. 1x for the way in which he deals with quod genus here and in other places. quom Nicc. com A Lach. cum B.
197 ursimus. urgimus A corr. Nicc, Camb. alte Flor. 31 for altu.
199 revomit Pont. Nauger. for removet.
203 debent flammae quoque Ald. 1 Junt. for q. d. ft.
205 in se est deorsum deducere Mar, Ald. 1 Junt. for inest deorsum ducere. in se est Flor. 31 Camb. quantum est in se deorsum ducere one Vat. Pont. Lach.
209 cadere in terram Nicc. for caderem in terra.
210 caeli Bern. better than summo or aetherio of older editors: caeli I had myself restored from Cie. Arat. 297 summo caeli de vertice tranans.
214 abrupti. abruptis Macr. sat. VI 1 27.
218 se added by Ed. ferme Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. for firme.
219 mss. are quite right: see notes 2: loci spatiis decellere Lach. whom I before followed.
220 momen. minimum two Vat. and old eds. before Junt.
227 plagas B corr. and Lamb. for plag. plagis Nicc. followed by all before Lamb.
233 Aeris haud Nicc. for Haeraut A, Ilacraud B Gott.
234 exsuperata Mar. Junt. for exsuperate. exsuperatae Nicc. perhaps rightly.
240 poterunt Flor. 31 Camb. for potuerunt,
247 se before est added by Flor. 31 Camb. etc.
249 recta added by Nicc. whom all before Lach. rightly followed: it was absorbed by the similar letters in regione. — nulla regione Lach.
250 Declinare quis est qui possit cernere sese: this reading of all mss. and editions I now keep: the constr. is not harsher than others in Lucr.: see notes 2. de se Ed. in small ed. forsese. sensus Bern, praestet Lach. for possit.
251 motus Flor. 31 Camb. for motu.
252 semper added after exoritur by Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. all editors before Lach. exacto added by Lach. before exoritur: obviously not right, as the new motion does not first begin when the other ceases: the reason of the omission was the semper of 251. movus atque ex ordine Pont.
257 potestas Lach. for voluptas: a certain correction: comp. 286: Lamb. in vain transposes voluptas and voluntas of 258: Flor. 31 Camb. have voluptas in both places, but it can be right in neither.
261 equorum Brix. for quorum, not Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. or Ver. Ven.
267 conquiri A corr. Gott. Nicc. vulg. for conciri of A p. m. B which Lach. keeps: both must have been in the archetype.
268 coniza Gif. for conera, as in 160. conexa is absurd, though in nearly all eds. before Lach. Lamb. says some mss. have conniza: but that I doubt.
275 perspicuum nobisst AB for perspicuumst nobis: see Lach. for the strange frequency with which st is thus transposed in AB.
277 extera. extima Pont. Mar. vulgo wrongly; prob. from the extrema of Nicc.
278 279 Pellat…rapi Avanc. rightly for Pallat…rapit. Pellit…cogit…rapit Junt. and vulg. before Wak. Fallat A corr. Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. all Vat. Pellat…cogat Mar. Fallit, cogit, rapit Pont.
281 copia Flor. 31 Camb. for cona.
283 residit Flor. 31 for residia.
291 quasi Nicc. for quaei. hoc add. by Ed. id Lach.
294 fuit umquam Junt. not Mar. for fultum quam. Cic. ad Att. x111 40 1 for the corrupt hic autem ut fultum est read hic autem, ut fuit tum, est.
301 vique valebunt. inque valebunt Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. vulg. ‘vix latine’ says Lach.
305 extra added by Ed. after quiequam est, in which it was absorbed: the sentence requires this: comp. V 361 and I 963, and Camb. Journ. of phil. 1 p. 875. Lach. adds seorsum at end of verse, neque rursus in omue Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. vulg.
314 surpere Pont. Junt. for asurpere.
322 vel ut in Lach. rightly for veluti in of all mss. and eds.: mss. seem to have a tendenucy to this blunder: 780 uti in for ut in; above v. 86 fit uti for fit ut; Virg. Aen. IV 402 veluti ingentem M a c, velut P γ b rightly; VI 708 veluti in FGM, velut in P etc. ap. Ribbeck: uti is never found before a vowel: see also 536 and Lach. there.
325 ibi Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for ubi.
330 tramittunt A, transmittunt B.
337 constant Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. vulg. Lamb. for constat: 694 constant B Nicc. (?), Camb. vulg.: 724 constent AB vulg.: in all three places constent Lach.; but I believe the indie. to be right, and the subj. to have come from the adjacent verbs: see notes 2,
342 Praeter eat Ed. for Praetere. Praeterea Nonius p. 158. Praestat rem Ed. formerly. Parturiunt Lach. which I don’t understand. Praeterea and 347 Horum for Quorum Junt. vulgo: not Mar.
343 armenta Bentl. and Tonson’s edition for arbusta.
347 quidvis Lach. for quodvis, as IV 126.
356 Noscit Lach. for Nonquit A Flor. 31 Camb. etc. Non quid Nicc. Oinquit B, Oinquid Gott. Linquit B corr. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. vulgo, without sense. Nowit Brieger: but Lucr. rather uses mosco.
359 absistens Ed. for adsittens. adsidueis Lach. which is very weak. adsistens B corr. Nicc. vulg.
361 vigentes. virentes Macrob. sat. VI 2.
362 illa AB Gott. ulla Macrob. 1.1. ‘B corr.’ says Lach. A corr. as I and Heins. have noted, Camb. vulgo.
363 subitam I now keep: see notes 2. sump-tam Ed. in 1st ed. solitam Lach.; but the care here is quite insolita.
365 curaque. curamque A corr. Nicc.
369 Balantum A Gott. Nicc. etc. Balatum B Flor. 31 Camb. etc.
371 non tamen omne. non ita, Menuni Bruno (Harburg 1872, p. 3): acutely; but see notes 2.
376 pavit. lavit Nonius Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. Lamb. in text, but in notes he prefers pavit.
381 est tali Lach. for est animi. est parili Bern. not so well: the t of tali was absorbed in est. est iam animi Lamb.; but animi is out of place.
383 fuat Faber and Bentl. for fluat: Livy xxv 12 6 mss. have fluat for fuat.
387 ortus. ortu Lach.: comp. VI 909 fit ortus, and 1141.
390 almus B corr. Brix, Pont. amnis Mar. for alimus.
397 cuiusque. coli usque Bruno (Harburg 1872).
401 ‘oratio lenius decurret, si seribemus pertorqueat. sed potest ferri pertorquent’ Lach.
403 iucunde tangere Nicc. for iucundet tacere.
413 Mobilibus Politian marg. Flor. 29 and Nauger. for nobilibus.
421 diri turpesque Liach. for di turpesque. fedi turpesque, qui olidi t., tetri t., turpes olidique have all been read. caeli turpesque Nicc. and oldest eds.
422 figura Lach. after Schneidewin Phil. 111 p. 538 for videntur which has come from 421 aud supplanted the feminine subStantive. quae mulcet causa iuvatque Junt. quae mulcet cunque iuvatque Avanc. without scnse; but at end of his ed. of Catullus he bids us read quae mulcet causa iuvatque. mulctat causa iuvatque Mar. apparently; but the words are much erased.
423 levore Avanc. for leviore. — 427 unca. uncaque mss. — 498 utqui added by Ed. and N. P. Howard. etquae Flor. 31 Camb. vulgo. quaeque Lach. wunde Bern. quique, i.e. angelli, Ed. formerly: the que at end of 427 comes from the lost utqui. Then 429 possint A Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb., and (as I learn from Lach. p. 298) cod. Sangallens. schol. in Iuvenalem; rightly, as the subj. is necessary. possunt D Gott. vulg. Lach.
430 inulaeque Lamb. first for inviaeque. vinique Nicc.
437 egrediens Flor. 31 Camb. etc. for grediens.
438 aut: Lach. seems to me wrong in changing this to atque.
439 que added by Mar. Junt. vulgo.
451 e Lach. for ex, as our mss. elsewhere have e before l.
452 corpore A corr. for corpora.
453 Lamb. justly ejects: it is quite out of place: does it refer to poppy seeds, or poppy juice? in the former case it is untrue, in the latter unmeaning: Lach. retains it, and for quod reads quasi after M. Haupt.
455 procursus Mar.? Junt. for perculsus.
456—463: a passage variously emended: the changes I have made are slight and I think not improbable.
458 omnibw Lamb. after Muretus for omnia: comp. IV 82 where I read Moenibw for Moenia. omunino sint levibus Pont. Junt.
460 vesca Ed. for saxa: with penetrareque saxa of mss. for penetrareq. vesca comp. VI 541 summersosca of mss. for summersaq. saza; and VI 22) sasca mss. forsaxa. laxa Ed.formerly. sese Lach.
462 sedatum of mss. Y now keep: sic latum Ed. formerly: Lach. reads 461 venenumst for videmus, and 462 sed rarum for sedatum, making two changes. Ventis esse datum Bern. strangely for Sensibus sedatum. Sentibus esse datum Faber conjectures: but he thinks with Lamb. that 461—463 are spurious.
464 quodcumque. quod quisque Mar. Junt. vulg., wrongly joining this clause with the preceding.
465 habeto Ed. for debet. habebis Lach.: but he thinks debet may be right and a verse be lost, and this Bern. assumes. est minime mirabile habendum 3 Vat. Mon. Ald. 1 Junt. ‘Marullus’ says Gif. euiquam Gif. — ‘Ita v. l? i.e. Ver. Ven. he having the latter before him with Marullus ms. emendations; among which Marullus had inserted the reading of his ms. Mon.: Brix. omits the word.
466 fluvidus est. fluvidum est Ver. Ven. followed by all eds. before Lach. though the metre is thereby violated.
467 Este levibus atque rutundi admizta doloris Corpora mss.: some of these words it is plain have come from 466 and supplanted the words of Lucr. Est, et levibw sunt aliunde etc. Lach.: but he adds ‘quamquam sic quoque mirationem faciunt illa doloris Corpora, quae sunt pungentia sensus et laedentia’: quite true: Bern. reads Est et squalida sunt illis etc., and squalida indeed seems necessary: I have therefore written Est, et squalida multa creant admixta doloris Corpora: doloris being of course the accus. plur.
468 necessumst Lach. for necessu.
469 constent old eds. for coustet.
471 Et quo Pont. Mar. Junt. for Et quod. 171—477: by a better punetuation and by doubling one letter I have rectified this passage;
473 I have placed a stop after secernendi, and removed that which all former editors have put after videndi, and 477 have written quom magis for quo magis. Lach. puts 476 before 474 and then leaves a most involved sentence.
474 dulcis. dulcit Gif. not Lamb.: Lamb. keeps dulcis ed. 1 and 2: he conjectures acerbus and reads dalcet ed. 3.
477 possint. possunt Mar. Junt. Lamb. vulgo.
483 in eodem, una Ed. for in eadem una. eadem unius Lach.
488 transmutans B corr. for transmutas.
497 semina A corr. for Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for infinitis.
515 iter usque Lach. for hiemisque. perhaps hiemum usque.
517 Omnis of mss. is right. Eatima Ed. formerly. Ambit Lach. Finis Mar. Junt. Finit Lamb. vulgo.
518 Interutrasque: see notes 2. Inter utrasque mss. Interutraque Lach. here and in five other places, V 472 476 VI 362 1062, and 1rr 306 where I read Inter utrosque, and V 839 for inter utras.
521 infesta Lach. for infessa, and so Lamb. in notes, insessa in text after Mar. Junt. infensa Flor. 31 Vat. 1954 Othob. old eds.
522—568: this passage I have fully discussed in Camb. Journ. of phil. rv p. 143 etc. where I have shewn that Lach. is quite wrong in enclosing 522—528 in brackets, and beginning a new paragraph at 529, and there reading Protinus for Versibus: he gives us the alternative, whieh Bern. has adopted, of assuming one or more verses to have been lost before Versibus; and indeed all before him from Mar. Ald. 1 and Junt. downwards have inserted this line, Quod quoniam docui, nunc suaviloquis age paucis. Victorius in his copy of Marullus’ notes has not this line; but, for Versibus, Nune vero, Marullus’ first thought, answering to Laehmann’s Protinus. No stop is to be put at the end of 528, and 529 ostendens is to be read for ostendam; and then all difficulty vanishes.
533 minus Lamb. most rightly for magis which Wak. absurdly tries to explain.
535 genere Mar.? Junt. for genera.
536 Sicut Bentl. for Sicuti: II 816 mss. have the same error. Lachmann’s note shews the strange tendency of mss. to read sicuti for sicut, as above veluti for velut: in the passage he quotes from Plautus mil. 727, it now appears from Ritschl that the Ambrosian palimpsest has rightly sicut: Cic. Arat. 131 on the other hand Orelli reads Sicuti cum ceptant: Cic. de senect. 14, though the latest editors read the verse of Ennius Sic ut fortis equus, 5 of their 6 mss. have Sicuti.
541 lubet B corr. Flor. 31 Camb. for iubet.
543 nulla added by Lach. non sit in orbi B corr. mon sit in orbe Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. Mon. vulgo: perhaps rightly.
547 sumam hoc quoque uti Ed. for the meaningless sumant oculi: comp. 54l. si manticuler Lach. strangely. Wak. tells us that Bentl. obelised the words; and it is strange that all editors before Wak., even Junt. and Lamb., left them unnoticed; Wak. conj. sumant ollei.
553 guberna Lamb. for caverna. carinas Nicc.
555 aplustra Politian Mar. Junt. for pláustra A, plaustra B Nicc. Camb.
560 si finita B corr. Ver. Ven. Mar. for si infinita.
586 quod cumque Lach. for quaecumque: previous editors have gone much astray.
593 (and 607) Eximiis Avanc. for Ex imis. ‘Sie v. 1. o… Marull. ex Virg. lib. 5, ex imis, contra v. l: the ‘veteres libri omnes’ are only the Ven. in whieh were Marullus’ ms. notes: Ven. has Eximis which Gif. probably read Ezximiis: Marullus perhaps referred $o Aen. III 577 fundoque exaestuat imo, and divided the word: he makes no change in cod. Victor.
601: Lach. with reason supposes a verse to be lost here, which he thus supplies, Magnifice divam ex ipsis penetralibw vectam Sedibus. Lamb. reads Sublimem for Sedibus.
605 molliri Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. for moliri.
613 orbem Pont. Junt. catervas of mss. is a mere blunder of the scribe who has taken it from 628: a form of error common in our mss.: comp. 422 I 555 VI 15 etc. catenas of B is again a mere miswriting of cateruas, though it has deceived many. choreas Pont.
631 sanguinolenti Bentl. for sanguine fleti. — sanguine freti Nicc. and old eds. sanguine laeti Pont. Junt. Lamb.
632 numine. momine Lach. whom I followed in my small ed.: but see Ph. Wagner in Philologus supplement 1 p. 400, Conington to Aen. II 123 and Lachmann’s own note: comp. also IV 179.
636 Armat et in numerum pernice chorea; omitted by Pont. and Lamb. as manifestly made up out of 635 and 637.
653 Constituit Lach. for Constituet, as mavolt follows.
657 (680): this verse, whieh was the last of p. 73 of the archetype, has been transferred hither by Lach.: the scribe omitted it in its place and then wrote it at the bottom of the page. Pontanus acutely sees that both the vss. as given in mss. are fragmentary. parcat Lach. for parato. parco Flor. 31 Camb. etc.
658—660 (652—654) I have transferred hither: the itaque of 661 manifestly refers to them; so that if they are to keep their place, then (what comes to much the same thing) 652—657 must be enclosed in brackets as a subsequent marginal addition of the poet’s: see above, p. 29.
664 sedantes Nicc. B corr. for sedentes. Brieger puts this v. before 662.
665 retinentque parentum Flor. 31 Vat. 1136 Othob. 1954 Othob. s.m. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for retinente parente.
669 quamvis…unam Lamb. for quamvis..:una. quemvis…uni@ Nicc. quemwis… unum Mar. Junt.
674 condunt Ed. for traduntur. celant Lach. cludunt Bern.
675 ignem Nicc. for igne. ignes B corr.
681 a v. is lost here such as Quis accensa solent fumare altaria divom; see notes 2: not aletter of the mss. is to be changed. in privis pluraque dona Lach. In consequence of 657 (680) having been misplaced the older editors have made strange confusion here.
683 684 fucus…Fucus Lach. most properly for sucus…Sucus: ‘nam fucus color est ”.
684 sorsum AB only once. ‘seorsum et rerum [Faber’s text). et rerum om. mss. vv. repetendum ut puto 76 sorsum G.V. ms. notes of Is. Vossius. Haverc. and through him Lach. misrepresent him: ‘G.V.’ is of course his father Gerard, whose reading therefore is the same as Lachmann’s.
685 primis of mss. I now keep: see notes 2: privis Lach. after Vossius, Preiger, Haverc. who says ‘egregie et hoc loco privis habet Marginalis noster’: my ms. notes of Vossius are without it.
693 isdem Lamb. for idem: ‘quod est sane simplicissimum, sed videtur abhorrere ab usu Lueretii’ says Lach. who reads awkwardly nulli for nulla, and idem. But here and V 319 Lucr. unquestionably used isdem, as did his contemporaries.
694 constant Ed. with B Nicc. (?), Camb. Mon. Lamb. vulg. constent Lach. with A corr.: see 337.
696 for rerum ‘f. verum G.V.’ in Isaac’s ms, notes: and before him Pont.; and so Lach.: yet longe of Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. may be right, as the scribe might well write primordia rerum mechanically from the mere fact of these words so often coming together.
716 intus Lach. for inte. inter B corr. Camb. intra Nicc.: consentire is here transitive. in se Bern. which I don’t understand. inde Brieger.
719 Legibus his quaedam ratio disterminat omnis mss, omnia Lach. after Junt. as in I 1106 without authority: omnia I doubt not comes from Marullus, as he uses it in the same way in his hymn to earth at the end of a passage partly quoted p. 7 in which Lucr. is closely imitated: see also reading of Junt. in 749; [the cod. Victor. proves my inference to be correct here and 749: Marullus cites Virgil’s quin protinus omnia Perlegerent oculis]. hisce eadem r. d. omne Bern.: but omne is hardly thus used; therefore I read hisce ea res v. d. omnis: quaedam has no meaning.
721 ita quanque Junt. for ita cumque.
724 constant Ed. constent AB vulg. Lach.: see 337 and 694.
734 colorem Nicc. vulg. for colore: Lamb. and Lach. deny that imbuta colorem is Latin; but see notes 2. Lach. reads Nive alium quemwis quo sunt inbuta colore, cet.; but the nominative quae is absolutely required here. induta Lamb. for inbuta.
741 lumina Flor. 31 Camb. etc. for numina.
742 Dispexere Nicc. corr. Ávanc. for Despexere. Aspexere Junt. Lamb.
743 Bentl. and Lach. place after 748: but see notes 2. — 7418 a v. is lost here.
749 in omnis Flor. 31 Camb. Nauger. for et omnis. in omnia Junt. after Marullus: see note to 719.
759 omne genus Lach. for omnigenus. omnigenos A corr. Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. vulg.
760 Propterea Nicc. corr. Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. Junt. Lamb. ed. 1 for Praeterea which Wak. and, strange to say, Lamb. ed. 2 and 3 retain.
763 extemplo Brix. Lamb. for exemplo.
765 possint Lamb. for possunt.
779 unaque figura Nicc. for unaque figuras. unaque figura est Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. Junt. unaeque figurae Lamb. after Muretus; ‘contra consuetudinem Luoretii’ says Lach.
780 ut in Lach. for uti in: see 322.
781 in aequore Ver. Ven. Politian (?) Mar. Junt. for in aequora.
783 colores Nicc. for calores.
785 extra seems quite appropriate: Lach. reads ex his.
788 ducit et inlicit ut tribuamus Lamb. and Turneb. for ducit et inlicitu tribuamus (et om. A Nicc.). ducit in licitum ut tribuamus Camb. — ut illicitum hoc tribuamus Mar. Junt.
790 creantur Nicc. for creatur.
791 Nec quae Flor. 31 Camb. for Neque. variis ex Wak. for variis ea. — variata Pont. variantur Mar. Junt. variant se Ald. 1.
802 cervices. cervicemst Brieger.
803 rubra Flor. 31 Camb. Mon. Ver. Ven. for rubro.
805 curalium Wak. for caeruleum. — ‘fo. beryllum? Bentl.
806 larga cum luce Nicc. B corr. for largo cum luce which may be right.
809 Scire licet. Scilicet id Lamb. est om. Nicc,
814 sint Ald. 1 Junt. not Mar. for sunt.
815 opus esse colores Lamb. after Nonius for colore of mss.: see Lach.
821 Omne genus Lach. for Omnigenus, as 759. Omnigenis Nicc. vulg.
829 austrum. ostrum Wak. conj. for aurum: but the right punctuation I owe to Goebel quaest. Lucr. crit. p. 14, though Ven. Ald. 1 and Junt. have a full stop after aurum. aurea Purpura and 831 distracta for distractum Lach. without judgment. aurum which previous editors retain has no sense. wsu Bern. for aurum.
831 dispergitur Lach. for disperditur.
845 ieiuna Flor. 31 Camb. etc. for et una.
846 proprium. proprio Lach. with Junt. not Mar.; but compare 855. ullo Pont.
850 possis. potis es Lamb. Lach.: see notes 2.
853 contractans Lach., and some mss. of Priscian VI 91 for contractas. contractos vulg. servare (superare Forbig.) et perdere Nonius p. 188.
854 Propter eandem rem Lach. most truly for Propter eandem. Propterea tandem Flor. 831 Camb. Mar., Propterea demum Lamb., absurdly.
860 Molli Lamb. after Turnebus for Mollia.
875 fluvii frondes Lamb. for fluvii in frondes.
882 in ignis Flor. 31 Camb. Pont. Mar. etc. for ignis.
888 gigni. masci Priscian IV 27: see above p. 1.
891 rebus Avanc. for fedus. Joedus Wak. absurdly.
893 Sensile Nicc. for Sensilia. et extemplo Nauger. and a late corrector of the cod. Vietor. who more than once agrees with, probably follows Naugerius, for etemplo.
903 a v. is lost here such as Ipsi sensilibus, mortalia semina reddunt (or habebunt): Christ I now find suggests a v. has dropped out. I do not alter a letter of the mss.: Lach. in 909 reads ea for ex, seminibus for sensilibus, and 903 suétis with Lamb., and 904 iam for cum. tum Lamb.
905 cuique Ed. for cumque. cuncta Lach.
911 alio Lach. for alios, respicit for respuit. Nam ratio Bern. for Namque alios, retaining respuit.
915 (923) I follow Bern. in placing this verse here, rather than Lach. who makes it follow 916 (915).
919 animalia sint Lach. for animalibus: comp. 458 and IV 81: sint was added by Mar. and Junt.
920 at coetu Mon. Lach. for ab eoretu. ab coetu Junt. concretu Politian in marg. Flor. 29.
922 nequeant. mequeunt Gif. Bentl. Lach.: but the potential is in place.
926 quo fugimus Wak. for quod fugimus which Lach. in vain defends: the poet refers to 870 sqq., not to 886. quod vicimus Ed. in small ed.
928 effervere, terram Intempestivos quom (cum) putor cepit Mar. for offervere t. Intempestivus quam p. cepit A, coepit B. effervere Nicc. coepit Junt. putror Lamb.
932 Posse a non sensu Wak. for Posse ea non sensu, rather better than Posse ex of Lamb. Lach. etc. e Pont, sensum mutabilitate Lamb. ed. 3 in note for sensus mut. — Lach. keeps sensus.
933 quod proditus extet Ed. for quod proditum extra. quod protinus extent Lach. quod proditur extra Pont. Bern.; but the oratio obliqua requires the subjunctive.
936 sine conciliatu. mnisi conciliatum Goebel.
938 ipsam Flor. 31 Camb. Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for lesam.
940 terraque creatis. ‘Wak. has properly retained this reading of all mss. flammaque creatis Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. vulg. before Wak. aethraque creatis Lach.: but I do not know what aethra creata are, unless they be the same as terra creata, the various products of the earth.
941 convenienti Lamb. for convenientes which Lach. retains: the termination of 942 has caused the mistake.
943 animante in quaque cientur Hugo Purmann in Jahn’s Jahrb. f. Philol 67 p. 673 for animantem quamque tuentur. animantum concuterentur Lach.
947 Bern. reads omnicientes and 943 keeps the ms. reading: tuentur is quite foreign to the sense of the passage; else Lucr. would not avoid using omnituentes and tuentur together.
951 caulas B corr. Flor. 31 for cavias. eiecit. eicit Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb.
954 oblato old eds. for oblata.
961 conlecta Lamb. first for coniecta which Wak. absurdly retains. — possit Lach. for possint: as the verb caunot refer to sensus or anything but quamvis animantem in 944.
968 Praeterea. — propterea Lach. perversely: see notes 2: a new paragraph begins here.
975 de quibw factumst Lamb. for de quibus auctumst, and 986 non ex ridentibu! factus for non ex ridentibus auctus. Nonius p. 511 has de quibus actus. Lamb. ed. 3 adds most truly ‘Primum Latine diei non potest auctus de re aut ex re aliqua, sed auctus re aliqua [speaking of course of the atoms of which a thing is made: V 322 quodcumque alias ex se res auget alitque, and the like have nothing to do with the question]. nam auctus casum septimum sine praepositione postulat. deinde aliud est auctus re aliqua, aliud factus de re aut ex re aliqua. hoe qui nescit, fateatur se hospitem esse in lingua Latina’: this he doubtless intended for Gifanius. Wak. more fearless than the angels keeps of course auctum and thus comments, ‘editores aptum [most factum] ausi scilicet, libris omnibus religionem invocantibus contra profanos emendatores, dictionem Lucretio lubentissime frequentatam contextu emovere, et fetus proprios per audaciam odiosissimam atque perditissimam infercire. (s ápyaMéov mpayu’ éorív, Q Ze) kal feol’. “Truly delira haec furiosaque cernimus esse Et ridere potest mon ex rideutibw factus.
976 AB have here cacinnant: and so perhaps Lucr. wrote; but elsewhere they insert the h.
985 delira Flor. 31 Camb. Brix, Mar. for det ira.
998 adepta B corr. Flor. 31 Camb. for adempta.
1000 missumst Lactantius, misswm est Camb. etc. for missus.
1001 rellatum. fulgentia Lactant. inst. VII 12.
1002 mors ves, ut Mar, Ald. 1 Junt, for mors ut res.
1004 coniungit; et efit ut Ed. for coniungit et efficit. coniungitur et fit Lach. who has a full stop at ollis. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. vulg. have ut for ita in 1005: as no editor before Wak. would tolerate the omission of ut.
1010—1012 Lach. and Bern. with all previous editors have quite misunderstood this passage in which not a letter is to be changed: they take quod to be the conjunction; it is really the relative: Lach. for swummis unskilfully reads cunctis, and supposes 1013 to commence a new paragraph wholly unconnected with what precedes: he encloses in [ ]1013—1104. The truth is 1013—1022 are closely united with what precedes ifrightly understood. Mar. Junt. Lamb. ed. 1, vulg. have parum for penes in 1010. Lamb. ed. 3 has a long note shewing that his conception of the passage is no less confused than Lachmann’s: the small word qwod has given rise to these strange misapprehensions.
1015 1016—1: 820 821 with the exception of Significant for Constituunt: 1020=726 and V 438: Lach. has rightly seen that they are here quite out of place: in the first book they are properly said of the atoms, but here they interrupt the sense: 1020 the interpolator has transferred hither without taking the trouble of changing vías and plagas to viae and plagae, which was first done by Pont. and Mar.
1017 sunt Lach. for sint: he compares 458.
1023 adhibe veram B corr. Ver. Ven. Mar. for adhibueram.
1024 vementer Avanc. and Lach. rightly for vehementes: so vemens which oceurs several times: in fact those were the only forms known to Luer, and all writers of the best ages: see Lach.
1025 Accédere all mss. and old eds.: this old form I have retained here and V 609 where A has Accedere, Nicc. Accendere: see Vahlen’s Varron.sai. Menipp. p. 95, and his Ennian. trag. rel. 114 and 281, where the best mss. of Ennius and. Varro retain the same form accédo: it appears from Ribbeck that the mss. of Virgil preserve in many similar words e for i, but his judgment in adopting them seems often at fault: ap. Ribbeck trag. Lat. p. 1x Fleckeisen gives examples from Plautus; Livy XXVI 10 12 mss, have accedere: 11x 239 I retain recépit of mss. peremo interemo neglego intellego were the only forms admitted in the best ages, as the concurrent testimony of all good mss. proves.
1029 minuant mirarier. mittant mirarier Lach. which 1 adopted in the small ed.
1030 Suspicito Bern. for Principio. Percipito Lach. which can hardly be right: indeed Principio is so appropriate that Iincline to think a verse is lost, such as this Cuius, uti memoro, permulta exempla videmus: Principio, ‘chief of all’. Lamb. has Principio quod non m. m. o. Paulatim, caeli cet. on no authority, though he appeals to ‘veteres libri’.
1031 cohibet Lach. for cohibent: he justly wonders no one before him saw this. quemque …cohibent previous editors.
1033 essent. ezxtent Orelli Lach. adsint Pont. Junt. Lamb. etc.: the imperfect seems necessary; l therefore in 1034 read si nunc for si sint: the si was written twice; hence the error. essent…Ex inproviso visu subiecta Bern.
1047 iactus Gronov. Bentl. for tactus. iniectus Mar. Junt. whieh gives the right sense. libero quo pervolet ipse B, volet A. — liber quo pervolet ire Lamb.
1049 supra supterque Lach. rightly for superque. superque infraque Politian in marg. Flor. 29, infraque superque Mar. subterque Pont. infra supraque Ald. 1 Junt. Lamb. vulg.
1058 ut Ed. for et: Lach. inserts ut before semina in 1059.
1061 colarunt Nicc. 8 Vat. Mon. Junt. rightly: see notes 2. colerunt AB. cooluerint Lamb. coluerunt Lach. coierunt B corr. Flor. 31 Camb. one Vat. coniecta of all mss. seems to me quite right: comp. 1108. convecta Lach. which appears to be the right reading in the nearly identical passage V 429 where the mss. have conventa. Lach. objects to coniecta ‘quasi Lucretius hic aliter quam in quinto dicere potuerit’: but there he has also conveniant, here colarunt, there saepe, here semper; for Lach. vainly alters saepe to semper: he also says of coniecta ‘sententiam non explet nisi addita loci significatione, ut paulo post Conicere in loca quaeque’ cet.: but I 284 Fragmina coniciens silvarum arbustaque tota, we find it used absolutely.
1062 exordia Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for ex ordine, as in the 5th book.
1070 et. ex Lach. but et is clearly right: ez makes the construction most awkward: then 1072 Visque eadem et natura Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for Vis eadem natura, Quis eadem natura Lach.
1073 quaeque queat simili Flor. 31 Camb. for quaeque atsimili.
1079 aliquoiw’ siet Gronov. for aliquoiuis siet B, alioquoiuis A: the older editors have gone widely astray.
1080 inclute Memmi Gronov. for indice mente.
1081 Invenies Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for Invenisse.
1082 genitam Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for geminam.
1089 quod his generatim rebus abundans mss, est Lach. for his. hic…abundat Bern. hie generatimst rebus abundans Ed.
1094 mss. giving vitam for vitam have caused Mar. Junt. Wak. etc. to err strangely: simple as it is, Avanc. first saw the truth. vitam Pont. before him.
1102 in added by Lactant. inst. III 17, Flor. 31 Ver. Ven. Mar. etc.
1110 Appareret Nicc. Camb. for appariret. Politian in marg. Flor. 29 says ‘in vetusto Appareret’: was this the ms. of Poggio? in 716 to infra he has in marg. ‘P inter’, with dots added: is P Poggio? AB there have inte.
1115 aether added by Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. aéraque aér Lach.: but see notes 2.
1116 extremam.. finem Lach. rightly for extremum…finem, as this is the only place where the mss. make finis masc. perfica AB Nonius. perfice A corr. Nicc. 1190 hic Ed. for his, as in 1089. his rebus here has no more sense than there.
1122 hilar…adauctu AB. hilari Avanc. hilaro more rightly Lamb.
1124 corpora Nicc. B corr. for cora.
1126 dispessa Ed. for dispersa: comp. III 988 dispessis membris: dispersa has here no sense: a full-grown man is moredispessus, but not more dispersus than a child: dispessa is the same as the res amplior et latior of 1133.
1129 debeut Flor. 31 Camb. for debet.
1131 robur. robor AB, perhaps rightly; but Quintilian says that ‘summi auctores’ write robur, ebur.
1135 ab se Lach. for a se, Lucr. as a rule usiug ab before s: but I have my doubts here: see Lach. to VI 925: Lucr. may have varied his usage.
1136 diditur Mar. Ald. Junt. for deditur.
1138 queat Mar. Junt. for queant.
1139—1142 (1146—1149): Goebel quaest. Lucr. crit. p. 33 has first seen that these verses are to come after 1138: the thing admits of no question; though it has escaped all the editors and Lach.
1140 cibus added by Is. Vossius in ms. notes: Faber omits the verse: Voss. inserts ‘et fulcire cibus, cibus omnia sustentare’; and adds in marg. ‘sic Ms, v.’
1150 fracta B corr. for facta. aetas. Heins. proposes in ms. notes aetate. effeta Nicc. for effecta.
1153 opinor enim mortalia Mar. Junt. for opinore immortalia.
1165 manuum Is. Voss. in ms. notes for magnum.
1166 Mon. and Junt. read Et cum temporibus praesentia tempora, and so Politian in marg. Flor. 29: it is to be noticed that here too Naugerius, as in I 15 and 16, does not follow Junt. but recurs to the true order of the words.
1168—1170 (1170—1172) Theod. Bergk in Jahn’s Jahrb. vol. 67 p. 319 has rightly transferred to this place.
1171 mss. have at the end fatigat, taken from 1172 by a common blunder, for which Heins. in ms. notes reads vietae, comparing III 385 viétam: he suggests too viétae for vetulae, after Hor. epod. x11 7, and senectae for fatigat, used 88 in ri1 772.
1172 momen Pius in notes for nomen. caelum Wak, for saeclum. Pius, having of course fatigat in 1171, suggests ingeniously saeclumque fatiscens. Nicc. all Flor. Vat. Camb. old eds. omit this verse: I don’t know whence Avanc. got it: Pius of course had it from him.
1174 “ Ad scopulum. sic oblongus: quadratus A4d copulum, sed s littera ab ipso librario addita. de his Havercampus falsa refert: sed idem verissime et praeter morem suum ingeniose scribit ire Ad capulum’ Lach.: Wak. also says of it, ‘quae est Havercampi ingeniosissima ac dignissima pretii quantivis emendatio’: but alas it is not Havercamp’s, as may be seen from his own crit. note: it is due to Is. Vossius, who says in ms. notes ‘ms. ut hie, al. ms. ‘copulum’ and again ‘copulum v. lege capulum i.e. sepulturam’: the two mss. are AB, then in his own library: Nicc. reads scopulum with A.
Book III
Section titled “Book III”1 E Mon. Brix. Ver. Ven. for O of A Vien. frag. om. B Nicc.
11 libant Avanc. Nauger. Gif. Lach. for limant. ‘an magis libant’ Mar.
15 coorta Orelli Lach. for coortam.
21 semperque Nicc. eorr. Flor. 31 Camb. Vat. 1136 and 1954 Othob. Pont. Mar. Junt. Lamb. Lach. for semper. semper sine nubibus Ald. 1, because Ver., and Ven. on which Ald. l is founded, have in nubibus with 3 Vat.
28 ibi Pont. Gronov. Wak. for ubi. tibi Mar. Junt.
29 sic natura Avanc. for signatura.
33 aeterno Bentl. for alterno.
44 (16) first placed here by Bentl.
58 eiciuntur Lamb. ed. 2 and 3, Gif. Lach. for eliciuntur: the two words being perpetually confounded, though eliciuntur is perhaps defensible here. Lach. is wrong however in saying that Lamb. ‘tandem veritati concedens’ adopted eiciuntur from Gif. without acknowledgment: in his first ed. he keeps eliciuntur in the text, but has the same note as in ed. 3: ‘existimant quidam legendum eiiciuntur…et ita amicus meus putat legendum in oratione pro M. Caelio, nonne ipsam domum metuet, nequam vocem eiiciat ? ubi vulgo legitur eliciat: cui propemodum nunc assentior, quamvis olim dissenserim’ cet. Lamb. angry though he was, was too true a scholar to treat Gif. as Gif. treated him. Nor does what he here says of his friend Muretus call for the petty malignity with which the latter in his var. lect. II 17 speaks of him after his death. manet res Flor. 31 Camb. Pont. Mar. for manare.
65 ferme. famae Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. from formae of Brix. Ver. Ven. fama et Lamb.
66 videntur Lamb. for videtur, as semota is neut. plur. according to the usage of Lucr.: but it is with much doubt and hesitation and in deference only to two such scholars as Lamb. and Lach. that I refuse to allow to Lucr. the liberty which the purest writers seem to have claimed, of making the partie. and verb refer only to the last of two or more nominatives.
72 fratris Macrob. sat, VI 2 15, Junt. not Mar. for fratres.
78 statuarum Flor. 31 Camb. corr. Vat. 1954 Othob. Mar. Junt. for statum,
81 consciscant Nicc. for coniciscant.
82 I assume a v. to be lost here, such as Qui miseros homines cogens scelus omne patrare: sce notes 2.
84 suadet. fundo Lamb. fraude Lach. clade Bern.
94 quam Charisius p. 187 (210) for quem: so Mon. Junt. Lamb. Lach. ‘hoc ipsum dedit, ante quam Charisii liber innotuisset, Marullus; quod miror, cum ille tam subtiliter iudieare non soleat’ says Lach.: but Marullus found it in his ms. out of which Candidus also got it.
95 locatum Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for vocatum.
98 before this verse one or more have been lost: Ald. 1 thus supplies it, Quamvis multa quidem sapientum turba putaret: Mar. Junt. and eds. in general before Lach. give the same, but for putaret more correctly putarunt: Gif. has putarit, and this note, ‘Ita v. q. l. [vetus quidam liber] in al. putaret. al. putarüt. It is not improbable the v. q. l. is the Ven. with Marullus’ ms. notes: it is very possible too that putaret in Ald. 1 is a misprint for putarit: see what I say above p. 10 on the heavy charge brought against Avancius by Lach. here. [As Marullus therefore in cod. Victor. writes putarunt, putarit was probably an earlier suggestion: see n. to II 529: other instances will be noticed below.]
100 faciat Nicc. B corr. for taciat.
106 aegret Lach. from ‘grammaticus Vindobonensis Eichenfeldii who quotes the verse on account of the word aegret. aegrum mss. aegrit Lamb. ed. 3.
108 fit uti Lamb. for fit ubi. ‘Itali fit uti’ says Lach. What Itali? not Nicc. nor Flor. 31 Camb. Ver. Ven. Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Pius Junt. Ald. 2: all of which I have now before me except Nicc. and Flor. 31, and of these two I have a collation of my own.
118 corpus senteire Lach. from a conj of Wak. for corpus interire. harmoniam corpus retinere Mar. Ald. 1 Junt.
132 is first rightly given by Is. Voss. in ms. notes, by simply reading alto for altu of AB. A corr. Nicc. and all late mss. read ab organico and salto or saltu or sacro: hence endless confusion. ab organico saltu…Heliconis in the old vulgate.
135 id added by Flor. 31 Camb.
145 sapit, id sibi Wak. for sapit sibi. sapit et sibi Nicc. vulg.
154 ita palloremque Nicc. Mar. etc. for itaque pallorem. itaque et pallorem Lamb. etc.
159 animi vi Ven. Mar. first for animi: Lach. is wrong: Flor. 31 reads animai, Ver. om. vi with AB Nicc. animi vis Nonius Brix.
170 offendit B corr. for offendis. teli Mar. Junt. most truly for leti.
172 terraeque petitus Segnis Eid. for t. p. Suavis, because I can think of nothing better: suavis manifestly has no sense. Suppus Lach.: but why suppus rather than pronus? a man is generally wounded in front and then, as Lucr. says IV 1049, he falls forwards not backwards. Saevus et Bern. after a friend of Wak, Mr John Jones: but the copula et is never found in Luecr. out of its place, and a single example must not be introduced by conjecture.
183 sibi Wak. for si: V 1142 B has st for sibi.
198 spicarumque mss. Bern. has seen that in the letters wQvE the verb MoUvERE lurks: in 236 mss. multamqueri for multa moveri: he reads caurw’ movere; but whence comes the spi? I have therefore written ipse eurw’ movere. spiritus acer Lach.: but the sentence requires a verb. spiclorum and the like of older editors are absurd. conlectum Muretus for coniectum which Lamb. approves of in his notes and Lach. rightly adopts.
203 est added after quoniam by Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. It is added at the end of the verse by Flor. 31 Camb.
210 si for se Nicc. Mon. Ver, Ven. not Flor. 31 or Camb.
224 Nil oculis. ‘leg. nilo’ Heins. in ms, notes.
227 rerum. rei Lach., I now think without reason.
232 Tenuis A corr. for T’enus.
234 cui non sit miztus ct aer. cui miztus non siet aer Lach. who will not tolerate et for etiam.
236 multa moveri A corr. Nicc. and all before Lamb. for multamqueri: comp. 198. multa cieri Lamb. wrongly after Turnebus.
239 240 a most doubtful passage:
239 res Ed. after Bern. for mens, 240 it seems to me certain that quaedam has come here from the quaedam of 241, and as what the poet wrote must be uncertain, I have written et homo quae for quaedam que. Lach.
239 reads quem for mens, 240 quaedam vis menti’, just retaining the word he ought not and making a most awkward construction. Bern. strangely reads in 240 quidam quod manticulatur. Is. Voss, in ms, notes ‘legendum videtur qui dant quae mente volutes’.
239 I retain recépit with AB: comp. n. to II 1025 Accedere: Virgil’s and other old mss. retain many traces of this e, intermediate between the a of the simple verb and the later <.
244 e parvis et levibus est elementis Wak. in notes for e p. et l. ex elem. and jusily: comp. VI 330: in his text he follows Camb. est p. et l. ez el. which may be right. et p. et l. ex e. Lach. e parvis aut l. ex el. Junt. Lamb. not Pont. or Mar.
249 is first rightly given by Pont. and Avanc. in notes at the end of his Catullus: AB have Concutitur tum sanguis viscera persentisiunt: Flor. 31 Camb. 3 Vat. give persentiscunt: this unrhythmical order of the first words appears in the Junt. and in the text even of Lamb. ed. 1; in ed. 2 and 3 and notes of 1 he reads Tum quatitur sanguis, tum; Nicc. misled by persentisiunt strangely gave Concutitur tum sanguis per sentes viscera iunt; and hence Ver. and Ven. vint for iunt; out of which Avanc, in Ald. 1 ingeniously devised Concutitur sanguis per venas, viscera vivunt Omnia, but he afterwards learnt better.
257 retinere valemus A corr. Nicc. all before Lach. most properly for retinemus valemus: he reads absurdly retinemu’ valentes, as if we could not be in life without being in health: the origin of the corruption is obvious.
266 viscere B. visere A and clearly ms. of Poggio, as Nicc. and all late mss. and early editions so read, even Junt. but not Avanc.: ‘alii viscere’ Mar.: yet to Wak. viscere is ‘sordidum et ineptum’!
267 color Lamb. conj. rightly for calor. calor vulgo Lach.
288 etenim Faber in emend. and Lach. for etiam: a necessary change. Lach. rightly follows Bentl. in joining in ira with Cum fervescit.
289 acribus Lamb. ed. 2 and 3 for acrius.
290 et. ea Lach. intolerant of et for etiam.
293 fit qui. qui fit Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. vulgo bach.: but see notes 2,
298 is placed by Lach. before 296 without cause.
303 nimis Flor. 31 Camb. Vat. 1954 Othob. Mar. for minus.
304 Fumida suffundens Flor. 31 Camb. corr. for Fumidas effundens. wmbra B. umbram A Nicc. Camb. whieh may be right: comp. Plaut. rud. 588 Quasi vinis Graecis Neptunus nobis suffudit mare.
305 pavoris Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for vaporis.
306 Inter utrosque sitast Avanc. (sita est Mar. Junt.) for Inter utrasque sitas. sitas of mss. must be sitast: the seribe has then adapted utrasque to sitas. Interutraque secus Lach. Interutraque secat Bern,
309 Naturae Mar, Junt. for Natura.
317 quot. quod AB, which Lucr. may have written: so quod vis AB in 1090: Augustus in his res gestae writes aliquod; as does B in VI 317: capud A or B repeatedly.
319 videor Faber for video. firmare Ver. Ven. for formare.
321 nobis Lach. for noctis. — dictis Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. Lamb. ed. 1 and 2. doctis Lamb. ed. 3.
332 fiunt consorti…vita Mar. Junt. for cousorti fiunt…vitae.
333 though sound, is much corrupted by Mar. Junt. Lamb. vulg.
335 eas Lach. for eos; as eos is contrary to the usage of Lucr.
346 reposta Avanc. for reposto. reposti Mar, Junt. without sense nof ‘repostis.
358 perdit quam expellitur ante Ed. for perditum expellitur aevo quam: the v. ia rejected by Creech in notes, and Bern. Jfultaque. Nullaque Lach. which seems scarcely to be Latin. Lamb. condemns 357 which Creech well defends.
361 Difficilest. — Desiperest Lamb. ed. 2 and 3, Gif. Lach.: but see notes 2, dicat Lamb. for ducat.
362 Lamb. rejects. Lach. puts it after 363.
372 privis Bentl. for primis: 389 priva is in the mss.
374 animae elementa minora AB Nicc.: this I have retained. animai el. min. Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. vulgo; but the elision is not tolerable. elementa minora animai Lach.
375 e AB Lamb. ed. 3 Creech Lach. rightly, et A corr. B corr. Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. all Vat. all eds, bef. Lamb. 3, Gif. Wak.
378 and 380 prima. priva Bentl. Lach. Ed. in ed. 1: but see notes 2,
383 aranei Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for arani: see Lach.
391 ciendum Avanc. for ciendo.
392 and 393 wrongly transposed by Mar. and in all editions including Lach. Bern. and Ed. formerly.
394 Et quam in his intervallis Lach. acutely for Et quantis int. Et quam intervallis tantis Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. vulg. Et tantis intervallis Wak.
400 et discedit Vat. 3276 Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for ediscedit.
403 circum Flor. 31 Camb. corr. Mar. for eretum.
404 remota B corr. Lach. for remot B, remotus A, remotis vulg.
405 aetherias. aerias Lach.: without any just eause he alters this and many passages of Virgil and others on the assumption that aetheriae eannot be joined with aurae.
411 Et. Sed Mon. Junt. Lamb. etc. wrongly.
412 and 415 are necessary to complete the comparison between the ball and pupil of the eye and the anima and animus: Lach. ejects them.
412 et orbei Ed. for eorum: see notes 2: Lamb. ruins the sense by reading confiet for non Jiet.
415 alioqui is corrupt: I transpose a single letter and write aliquoi, adding sit which could easily fall out before splendidus.
420 Digna tua…cura Lach. for Digna tua…vita. Perpetua…vita Bern. with reference I presume to 13 perpetua semper diguissima vita: but surely digna or dignissima would be required: and see notes 2. Digna tuo…vate Creech: but vates to Lucr. had only a bad meaning.
421 sub iungas nomine Ed. for subiungas nome (nomine B corr.): this the context requires: see notes 2. subiungas nomen vulgo. uni subiungas nomen Lach.
428 I retain the ms. reading. Lach. writes iam for nam: but he thereby inverts the argument: comp. 203 sqq. Lucr. says ‘the soulis seen to be marvellously nimble: therefore it is formed of very minute seeds’: Lachmann’s error is most manifest.
430 and 433 are ejected by Lach.: wrongly in my opinion.
430 movetur Mar. Junt. for moventur.
431 Quod genus in somnis. Here again Lach. reads est for in: comp. II 194, aite Ez. vaporem Lach. rightly for alta Ex. vapore.
432 Exhalare: exalare, V 463 Ezalantque, VI 478 alitus AB, followed by Lach. who does not however omit the aspirate, where only A or B omit it, as II 417 V 253 VI 811 and IV 864 VI 221. ‘exala: this form is better attested by ancient mss. than the common exhalare’ Halm, Cic. phil. II 30 ed. Mayor. This seems doubtful even in Cicero: his colleagues, Baiter Tusc. I 43 II 22 and Jordan Verr. n: 28 retain h: of the capital mss. of Virgil only M seems ever to omit it.
433 hinc Bentl. for haec. - genuntur Lamb. for geruntur.
438 Octus Nicc. B corr. for Opius. in added by B corr.
441 Cum. Quam Mar. Junt. Wak. Lach.
444 is cohibessit Lach. for éncohibescit. am cohibessit Lamb. Gif. incohibessit Wak. usque liquescit Bern. in quo habitet sit Ed. in small ed.: in quo might be looked on as one word and the elision thus defended; but see Luc. Mueller de re metr. p. 284 and notes 2 to I 1091.
450 auctior B corr. Nicc. corr. (?), Flor. 31 Camb. for auctor.
453 lingua, labat mens Lach. for lingua mens. lingua madet mens B corr. from 479. linguaque mensque Nicc. vulg.
458 ut added by B corr. fatisci Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. Vat. Mon. Bentl. for faetis. fatiscit B corr. Junt, Lamb. not Mar.
474 475 Et quoniam mentem sanari corpus ut aegrum Et pariter mentem sanari corpus inani: an absurd interpolation: 474—510; for 475 Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. substitute 511. Lamb. first expelled both.
476 quor. cor AB, which is the same thing: so II 194, IV 575 com — quom or cum: IV 116 eorum AB, corum Lach. i.e. quorum. cór hominum Niocc., Flor. 31 Camb. 5 Vat. old eds. before Mar. and Junt.: which Wak. absurdly keeps.
482 Cur ea sunt Nicc. for curba sunt.
482 quia Nicc. Flor. 31 Mar. old eds. for qua.
493 spumat, quasi in Lach. for spumans in, most acutely: former correctors and editors, even Lamb., had quite mistaken the meaning, and joined agens animam with vis morbi: their various readings are not worth mentioning: Wak. is unusually perverse.
497 Eiciuntur Lamb. for Eliciuntur: see 58 and IV 945,
523 rationi Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for rationis.
525 refutatu Mar. Junt. for refutatur.
531 Scinditur itque animae hoc Ed. for Scinditur atque animo haec: comp. 526. Sc. usque adeo haec Lach. Sc. aeque animae haec Bern. Sc. atqui animo haec Mar. Junt. Sc. atqui animae Lamb. vulg.
535 deducere Camb. Ver. Ven. Mar. for diducere.
548 loco quae Lach. first for locoque.
551 atque. aut Lach.: but comp. V 965 glandes atque arbita vel pira lecta.
553 Sed tamen in parvo linguntur tempore tali mss. ‘quidam doctus’ says Lamb. who condemns the verse ‘liquuntur) — ‘linguntur. mss. puto legend.: secta etenim parvo vincuntur tempore tabi, nisi malis liquuntur…tabi pro tabe, ut parti contagi pro parte contage vet. passim’ Is. Voss. in ms. notes. Sed tamen is of course quite right; I have written therefore with Creech in notes Sed tamen in parvo licuntur tempore tabe (Aen. II 28 P has linguntur for licuntur and Lucr. IV 1243 Ver. Ven. have lignitur for liquitur). linquuntur Flor. 31 vulg. in parvo lincuntur tempore tabi Lach. ‘ita Vergil. Alitibus linquere feris, et Ovid. leto poenaeque relictus’: but the moment the body is dead, linguitur tabi, whether the tabes comes at once or years after; so that tamen in parvo tempore would have no meaning.
555 homine old eds. for hominem, — vas esse Nicc. for vasse.
557 558 Lach. has no stop after adhaeret, and a comma after Denique:
558 begins a new paragraph; and I find from his proof-sheets that he altered the usual punetuation only in his final revise.
564 ipse oculus Flor. 31 Mar. (not: Nicc. Camb. Brix. Ver. or Ven.) for oculus ipse.
566 per added by Nicc. miztim Nicc. (not Flor. 31) Camb. Mon. Brix. Ver. Ven. for mizti.
571 moveri Lamb. for movere, ‘inscitissime’ says Wak.: see notes 2 to VI 595.
573 ani-mans erit Lamb. for animam serit.
574 eo Faber for eos: a certain correction rightly admitted by Bentl. and Creech. Lach. strange to say has neglected it and received instead Wakefield’s conjecture In se animam for Sese anima.
576—590 (592—606) Christ quaest. Lucr. p. 19 has acutely seen that these vss. are out of place: he puts them after 579 (594): I put them after 575: see notes 2.
578 de corpore velle Lach. acutely for de corpore omnia membra which has come from Nicc. Mon. Brix. Ver. Ven. omit 579 and 580.
580: cadere omnia corpore membra Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. vulg.
581 perhibetur B corr. for peribet B, periberet A Nicc.
591 Quare Nicc. B corr. for Quae.
598 animae vis Flor. 31 Camb. Ver. Ven. Mar. etc. for Flor. anima eius.
601 foras anima emanante Wak. for foras manant animaeque. foras manante anima usque Lach,
After 614 Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. vulg. add Gauderet, praelonga semex aut cornua cervus.
617 regionibus omnibus haeret. regionibw’ pectoris h. Lach. hominis reg. haeret Eid. formerly.
620 partitis Bern. for pro totis. perfectis Lach.
623 solita neque insigni AB. in igni Nicc. solita est Flor. 31 Camb. Pont. Mar.
624 si inunortalis Nicc. for si mortalis.
628 vagari Lach. for vacare. vagare B corr. Lamb. vulg. perhaps rightly.
632 animae Pius conj. for anima.
633 Auditu Ed. for Auditum. Haud igitur Lach. who here begins a new sentence, 647 semel Lach. for simul.
657 658 micanti and eauda e Ed. with Lach. for minanti and caude.
658 a v. is lost here such as Et caudam et molem totius corporis omnem: see VI 499: Lach. reads serpentem for serpentis, utrimque after Mar. Junt. for utrumque; and after all his construction is very foreed. i. v. minantis Serpentis caudam procero corpore, utrinque Lamb.
662 seque retro Nicc. for sequere retro.
674 tanto operest animi Mav. for tanto opere animist, 680 solitast animi Mar. Ald. 1 for solita animist: see 623, II 275 and Lach. there,
676 a leto Lach., longiter Lamb. Lach, from Charisius and Nonius, for ab l, longius.
685 Lamb. has most properly rejected: it is clearly a sarcastic gloss. Lach. retains it and for afluat reads arceat: an unlikely conjecture.
686—690 (600—694): Lach. was the first to transpose these vss.; and strange it is he should have been the first.
689 Morbus. Morsus Lach. Bern. Ed. formerly.
690 oppressus, subiit si e frugibus Bern. for oppressus subitis e frugibus. expressus, subiens e fr. Lach.
702 Dispertitus enim Lach. for dispertitur ergo. Dispertitur enim Pont. Brix. Ald. 1 Lamb.
705 quamvis integra vecens in Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for quamwis est integra rens.
710 tum Brix. Ver. Ven. rightly for tunc. periit. peritat Nicc. and later mss. and eds. before Pont. Junt.
723 privas in B corr. for priva si.
732 alguque Lamb. and mss. of Nonius for algoque.
733 adfine A p. m. (?) atfine B. et fine A corr. Nicc.: Gif. first restored adfine to text: the note in ed. 3 of Lamb. is amusing. Wak. returns to et fine.
736 Cum subeant. Quod subeant a friend of Faber’s, both Faber and Bentl approving. Cui s. Dern. qua Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for que.
738 utqui Ed. for ut quicum: see notes 2 to I 755: cum was written over qui by some one who did not understand qui: quidum Dern. and Ed. in ed. 1. Lach. adopts from Lamb. ut iam, which he allows ‘a litteris nimium recedere’.
740 consensus Lach. for consensu.
743 rightly rejected by Lach. and before him by a& ‘doctus quidam’ ap. Lamb. as a manifest sarcastic gloss, which interrupts sense and construction: Ven. Ald. 1, not Pont. Mar. or Junt., read cervis for cervos. Lamb. dolu’ vulpibus also.
747 toto B, quoque A and all other mss. and old eds. ‘toto praetuli, quia non possum ullam artem agnoscere in simili hoc trium versiculorum exitu, ingenioque, seminioque, corpore quoque. non potest autem dubitari quin utraque scriptura fuerit in archetypo’ Lach. Lamb. also has toto: quoque seems a gloss from 769.
760 sin Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for sic. corpora B corr. etc. for corpore.
763—146: of course a gloss, with no eonnexion with the text. Bern. includes 761 in the gloss, in my opinion not rightly.
784 in alto. salso Lach. because salso is found in the repetition of this passage V 128: but as Lucr. so often varies in such points, I cannot bring myself to depart from the mss.
789 longiter Lamb. Lach. longius all mss. here and V 133: conmp. 676.
793—793 are repeated V 131—137 without the mss. differing in a single letter. I flatter myself I have made the passage clear by a correct punctuation without the change of a word: 790 posset emim multo prius I enclose in brackets, and begin the apodosis at soleret. Lach. here and in v reads Quid si posset enim ? multo. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. vulg. give Hoc si posset enim, multo.
800 mortale Junt. for mortalem.
805 saevas Mar. Junt. for salvas. 806—818=V 351—368 word for word: they here interrupt the argument, and are of course one of the many glosses with which some reader has wished either to explain or refute the poet by quoting his own verses for or against him, as the case may be. But as that which follows in the fifth book applies only to the heaven, not to the mind of which Lucr. is here speaking, he did not continue his quotation; but Ald. 1 and Junt. after Marullus followed by all editors before Lach. add V 364—373, rudely altered to suit the present subject. ‘at Michahel Marullus’ says Lach. justly indignant ‘illo [leetore] audacior nihil veritus est ceteris transferendis immanes ineptias inferre; quos versus eum omnes libris veteribus sine exceptione omnibus abesse aut scirent aut certe deberent scire, plerique sine admonitione susceperunt, Wakefieldus, eui Forbiger adsensus est, “poetae” (id est Marulli) miratur ‘consideratam severitatem diligitque, per tam dilucidam ratiocinationem simpliciter mentem suam exponentis”. mihi Marulli male sedula simplicitas non nimis exagitanda esse videtur: subiciam tamen eius versiculos, ut appareat quae Lambinis et Wakefieldis (ceteros nunc omitto) Lucretio dignissima visa fuerint. At neque, uti docui, solido cum corpore mentis Natura est, quoniam admistum est in rebus inane, Nec tamen est ut inane, neque autem corpora desunt Ex infinito, quae possint forte coorta Corruere hanc mentis violento turbine molem, Aut aliam quamvis cladem importare pericli, Nec porro natura loci spaciumque profundi Deficit, expargi quo possit vis animai Aut alia quavis possit vi pulsa perire, Haud igitur leti praeclusa est ianua menti’,
820 letalibus Lamb. for vitalibus.
After 823 a verse is lost, which Lach. thus supplies, Multa tamen tangunt animam mala, multa pericla. Mar. Ald. 1 and Junt. insert after 820 the following, Seilicet a vera longe ratione remotumst; which Lamb. retained, but placed after 823.
824 morbist cum corporis aegrit AB. wmorbis Avanc. first: no ‘Italus’ before him. aegret Gif. in notes rightly for aegrit. Nicc., deceived by morbist and thinking cum a conjunction, wrote cum corpus aegrotat, which led to endless confusion in later mss. and eds.: even Lamb. was misled, and Creech and others before Lach. negleeted Gifanius’ hint.
826 macerat Flor. 31 Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for maceret: yet Wak. retains the solecism, 829 nigras. ‘f. pigras’ Heins. in ms. notes: Markland proposed the same, but without cause.
835 aetheris oris Gif. for aetheris auris; and so Lucr. always writes elsewhere.
844 Distractast Nicc. for Distractas.
847 materiem B, materiam A Nicc.
851 repetentia B rightly. repentia A Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. etinentia Avanc. Lach. nostri Pius in notes, Gif. Lach. for nostris. nobis Pont. Avanc. mostra Mar. Junt. vulg.
853 neque added by Lach. nec Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. vulg. adficit Flor. 31 Mon, Pont. for adfigit.
856 multimodis Lach. with Wakefield’s A for multimodi.
858 (865) transferred here by Lach. who is naturally surprised that it was left for him to do.
862 misere si Pont. Turnebus and Is. Voss. in ms. notes, before Lach., for miserest.
864 mors B corr. Flor. 31 for moz. probet Lach. prohibet Turnebus for prohibe.
868 Differre aune ullo Ed. for Differre annullo anullo A, anullo anullo B. — a nullo Nicc. isne ullo Ed. in small ed. Differre ante ullo Lach.; but differre fuerit seems not to be Latin. Differre an nullo of Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. Lamb. etc. has no sense.
871 putescat Avanc. Wak. Lach. for putes. putrescat Flor. 31 Pont. Mar. Junt. Lamb. vulg. Cic. de fin. V 38 me putisceret Nonius, putresceret mss.: de nat. deor. II 160 me putesceret mss. speaking of the same thing.
873 non sincerum Flor. 31 Camb, Pont. Mar. for no sincerum A. Nicc., nos sinc. D.
880 lacerent Nicc. for iacerent.
881 dividit illim A. viditillum B. dividitillum Nicc. dividit hilum Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. vindicat hilum Lamb.
886 Qui Flor. 31 Mon. Pont. Ald. 1 Junt. for Cui.
887 se added by Flor. 31 Camb. Avanc. dolere Mon. p. m. Lamb. for dolore. 898 obtritum Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for obrutum.
894 Iam iam Flor. 31 4 Vat. Lach. Amiam A Nicc. Vimiam B. At iam Pont, Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. vulg. At iam is perhaps right.
897 898 Lamb. has departed widely from the mss. without any cause, reading tibi fortibus for florentibus, miser o miser for misero misere.
904—908: to these verses Bern. has properly attached the mark of apostrophe.
914 fructus Flor. 31 Camb. for Jluctus.
917 torres Lach. for torret A, torrat a corr. B Nicc. — terra Flor. 31 Camb. Mon. Lamb.
919 requirit Flor. 29 corr. (Politian?) Camb. corr. Nauger. for requiret.
921 esse soporem A Nicc. vulg. esse praemo B: a merc blunder, the so being absorbed in esse: yet Bern. reads per acvum.
922 adficit Lamb. ed. 1 and 2, Heins. in ms. notes for adigit. attigit Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. Avanc. Lamb. ed. 3.
935 Nam gratis anteacta fuit tibi vita priorque Ed. for N. gr. fuit tibi vita anteacta priorque. Perhaps Lucr. wrote Nam gratis fuvit or füit tibi eet.: the ii is common in old writers. N. gr. fuit haec t. v. a. pr. Lach. N.si grata f. t. v. a. p. Nauger. Nam gratis fluxit cet. Mar. Junt, — Nam gratum f. t. v. Nicc. Nam gratisue fuit Bern.
941 offensust Lamb. for offensost.
942 male et B Flor. 31 etc. rightly. mali et A Nicc. Camb, Wak.
943 finem facis Avanc. for finem iacis.
948 pergas Lamb. ed. 3 for perges.
952 (955) placed here first by Lach.
955 balatro certain eritics in Turneb. advers. and Heins. in ms. notes for baratre. barde Ald. 1 Junt. not Mar.
958 inperfecta Flor. 31 Camb. for inperfecte.
960 discedere Nicc. for discere.
962 agedum Nicc. for agendum. magnus ‘censor Orellii Ienenis’ for magnis. iam aliis Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. vulg. dignis Lach. gnatis Bern. humanis and mage sis Ed. formerly.
966 deditur A Nicc. dedit B. decidit B corr. Lamb.
978 Atque ea nimirum AB Flor. 31 Camb. 2 Vat. Priscian rightly. Nicc. has Atque animarum etiam: a strange error which is repeated by 2 Vat. Brix. Ver. Ven. Mar. Ald. 1 and 2, Junt.: the last four read Atqui. Avanc. however at the end of his Catullus rightly recalls dtque ea nimirum; as do Lamb. vulg. but not Wak.
983 cuique. cunque B Lamb. etc. wrongly.
985 quod Camb. Junt. etc. for quid.
988 dispessis Turneb. for dispersis: so Ed. in II 1126: comp. Ovid. met. IV 458, and Plaut. miles 1407. ^ dispensis Lamb. ed. 3. ‘leg. distensis dispansis’ Heins. in ms. notes.
992 est B corr. Flor. 31 for es. et Nicc.
994 cuppedine Pont. Lamb, rightly, as V 45 VI 25. — curpedine AB. turpedine A corr. Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. Junt. etc. torpedine Ven. Ald. 1 Gif. who - says ‘Ita v. nostri et aliorum fere, in q. v. cuppedine, quod inrepsisse puto ex aliis locis inf. lib. 5 et 6 ..contra Marull. ex hoc loco mutarat inf. lib. 5 et 6 torpedine pro cupp. supposito’. Now the Junt. reads here, as I have said, turpedine; V 45 and VI 25 cupedinis. Again Ven. not Brix. or Ver. torpediue here. This therefore is one of many proofs, some of which I have given elsewhere, that Gifanius had the old Venice edition with Marullus ms. notes before him, and that this is the book belonging to Sambucus of which he speaks both in his preface to Sambucus himself and in his address to the reader: see above p. 9. [turpedine Mon. as I now find: and the corrector Marullus repeats the words in marg. as notable: torpedine must have been an earlier notion of Marullus; as in v and vi he properly corrects the ms. reading to cuppedinis.]
1001 e summo iam vertice Pont. Avanc. for summo iam vertice. summo iam e vertice Flor. 31 Camb. a su. i. v. Mar. Junt. vulg.
1005 cireum Cum redeunt. victum, Cum redeunt Lach. without cause.
1009 congerere B corr. etc. for cogere.
After 1011 I believe some verses are lost: both the words of Servius to Aen. VI 596 and his context prove to me that he is speaking of Lucretius, not of Virgil as Bernays affirms in Rhein. Mus. n. f. v p. 584, when he says ‘per rotam autem ostendit negotiatores qui semper tempestatibus turbinibusque volvuntur’, I have appended the mark of a hiatus and made no change in the iext. furiae B corr. Pont. Mar. for funae. For egestas of all mss. and of Brix, and Ver., Ven. has the remarkable reading egenus, adopted by Ald. 1 Junt. Lamb. vulg. Lach.; but it is of course a pure eonjecture which Lach. wrongly gives to Marullus.
1013 Qui neque. Quid? neque Lach. Haec neque Mar. Junt. vulg.
1014 poenarum Nicc. for paenarum of AB: in ancient times there seems to have been a struggle between paena and the more correct poena which finally prevailed. paenitet, or later penitet, was alone known.
1016 iactu’ deorsum Lamb. for iactus eorum. | iactw reorum Heins. in ms. notes.
1017 iam mina AB. agmina Nicc. Flor. 31 Brix. Ver. lamina Ven. vulg. lammina Lach.
1019 terretque Lach. for torretque. torquetque Heins. in ms. notes and advers. which Virg. Aen. VI 670 sontis…flagello…quatit might perhaps support.
1023 Hic. Hinc Pont. Mar. Junt. Lamb. vulg. without cause.
1031 superare Nicc. (not Flor. 31 or Camb.) for super ire. Lach. encloses the v. in [], as wrongly retained by the first editor.
1032 equis. aquis Lamb. etc. wrongly.
1033 fudit Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for fugit.
1034 Scipiadas AB Lach. Scipiades Nicc. vulg.
1038 potitus Flor. 31 Camb. Brix. Pont. Mar. for potius.
1042 obit Flor. 31 Pont. Mar. for obiit, iit Lach. it can scarcely be used in this unqualified way for mortuus est; nor is the evidence adduced by Lach. in his long and most learned note sufficient to shew that Lucr. could not have used the form obit before a consonant: but see notes 2.
1044 aetherius Lactantius Junt. aerius mss.
1050 potes tibi quid sit Lach. for potest ibi quod sit. potes tibi quod sit Mar. potes quod sit ibi Nicc.: hence potes quid sit tibi Flor. 31 Camb, Brix. Ver. Ven. Avanc. vulg. potes quod sit tibi Junt. Ald. 2 wrongly.
1052 animi incerto Lamb. for animo incerto.
1061 revertit added by Politian in marg. Flor. 29 Ald. 1 Junt. vulg. reventat Flor. 29 Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. 7revertens Pont. revisit Proll, de:form. ant. Lucr. p. 41—48.
1063 praecipitanter Nicc. for praecipiter. ‘f. praecipiterque… instat’ Heins. in ms. notes.
1068 1069: by a better punctuation I have I think made this disputed passage quite clear: 1069 ingratis Lamb. rightly for ingratius: nothing else is to be changed; but at quem…haeret are to be enclosed in brackets.
1068 for quem Lach. quom: his note is most unsatisfactory and to me almost unintelligible; especially the words ‘nam sese homo aut semper effugere potest aut numquam, quoniam hoc totum figurate dicitur’. Seneca de tranquill. I 14 clearly read quem: he explains Lucr. quite correctly. fugit at. fugitat Madvig poet. Lat. carm. sel. 1843: but Seneca, as well as our mss., clearly read fugit at.
1069 haeret et angit Mar. Junt. Lamb. vulg. For ingratius Ven. alone has initus; therefore Avanc. who founded his revision on it has Znvitus adhaeret,
1073 Temporis aeterni Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. first for Aeterni temporis.
1075 manenda Lamb. for manendo.
1078 Certa quidem Avanc before Lamb. for Certe equidem: Lucr. may have written equidem.
1085 fortunam Ald. 1 Junt. first for fortuna.
1088 delibare Pont. Mar. Junt. for deliberare. delibrare Avanc. Lamb. ‘f. devitare,” Heins. in ms. notes.
1089 possimus forte Nicc. B corr. Flor. 31 Camb. Brix. Ver. Ven. for possumus forte. sorte Ald. 1 Pius Junt. Naugerius. morte Lamb. first: no ‘Italus’ before him.
Book IV
Section titled “Book IV”7 animum. animos Lactant. I 16: see I 932.
8 pango Flor. 31 Camb. 3 Vat. vulg. for pando: so I 933.
II 1 4 Nonius Hieronym.
13 Contingunt. Inspirant or Aspergunt Quintil.
17 pacto Lach. for atacto: so I 942. a tactu Nicc. one Vat. Ver. Ven. Ald. 1 Junt. Wak. attactu Flor. 31 3 Vat. adtactu Camb. tactu Lamb. ed. 3. facto Lamb. ed. 1 and 2, Gif.
32 dereptae B Lamb. direptae A Nicc. all before Lamb.
41 quaeque. quoique Lach. ‘discessus’ he says ‘non aliter dari potest quam quomodo fugam dari Vergilius dixit, id est concedi’: but Virgil also says xr1 367 fugam dant nubila, that is fugiunt: see notes 2 for many more illustrations: discessum dederint therefore — discesserint,
42 effigias Lamb. for effugias of AB, effigies Nicc. and all mss. and eds. between him and Lamb.
43 summo de corpore rerum Lach. for summo de cortice eorum. — summo de corpore earum Lamb. vulg.: but comp. 31 and 64, and Lachmann’s note.
44—47 (15—48) =III 31—34, except 44 Sed quoniam for Et quoniam, 47 Quoque, possit for Quove, possint, and are rightly ejected by Lach. as a gloss. In this place they are of course quite inadmissible, Mar. Junt, vulg. put them before 26; and thither, if retained, they must be transferred. To this Lach. offers the objection that while the first 24 lines are repeated word for word from the first book, in 25 we have ac persentis utilitatem for qua coustet compta figura: this change he says was probably made because in 27 are the words compta vigeret; but had the poet really inserted 44—47 before 26, this alteration would not have been called for: see however what is said in notes 2.
48 49 (19 50)—29 30 and seem to be repeated here without meaning because of the resemblance between what precedes and follows them there andwhat precedes and follows here. Mar. and Junt. first omitted them.
50 Quoi Ed. for Qui. Quae Nonius Flor. 31 Camb. vulgo and Lach.
52 cluet Brix. Avanc. Ald. 2 for ciuct. cui et Nicc. tui et Flor. 31 Camb. eluet Ver. Ven. queat Mar. Junt.
53 (44) first transferred hither by Mar. Junt.
54 mittunt Nicc. for mittuntur.
68 eodem Pont. Mar. Junt. for eorm. rerum Ven. Avanc.
69 et formai Is. Voss. in ms. notes for et forma. et cum forma B corr., veterem et formam Camb. veterem et formae Vat. 1136 and 1954 Othob. Lamb. solitam et formae Avanc, Nauger. formaeque suam Pont. Junt. conformem or consimilem conj. Lamb. conformem Heins. in ms. notes.
71 et quae sunt prima Lach. for et sunt prima AB. ‘quadratus habet in ante prima additum antiquissima, si non prima manu’ Lach.: and so Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. et sunt prima sub Flor. 31 Camb.
72 iacere ac largiri Lach. most acutely for iacere aciergiri. tacere uc iaculari Flor. 31 Camb. 2 Vat. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt.
77 flutant Turnebus Lamb. ed. 3 for fluctus B. om. A Nicc. 2 Vat. Brix. Ver.: hence circum, pendent, duras in various mss. and eds.
79 Scaenai Lamb. first for Scaenal A, Scacnali B. Scaenalem A corr. Nicc. all mss. and eds. between him and Lamb. patrum coetumque decorum Ed. for patrum matrumque deorum. patrum matrumque deorumque Nicc.all before Lach. puleram variumque decorem Lach. claram variamque deorsum Bern. But comp. Aen. V 310, Tae. ann. XIII 54 and Camb. Journ. of phil. I 373. Lucr. often has que in the third place: comp. 104, and see notes 2 to II 1050. patrum and decorum seem to me pretty certain: for coetumque perhaps ornatumque or the like.
81 inclusa theatri Mo nibw’ Ed. for inclusa (B, inclaustra A Nicc.) theatri Moenia: a neeessary and simple correction: Moenia has arisen from the neighbouring inclusa, haec, perfusa: so II 458 omnia for omnibw, 919 animalibw for animalia. inclusa theatri Moenia, the vulg. reading, has no sense. angusta theatri Moenia Lach. which is eontrary to the truth.
91 diffusae rebus AB. Lamb. has rightly added e; and 92 he has also rightly given intrinsecus for extrinsecus: so VI 1099 intrinsecus A for extrimsecus.
94 coorte B, 1. e. coortae; and so Lamb. ed. 3. coorta A. qua contendant AB most properly. qua contendunt Nicc. and all mss. and eds. between him and Lach.: 91 diffusa e, 99 extrinsecu’ torte, 94 coorta Lach. whose explanation is most forced.
101 Extima, imaginibus Ed. for Ez imaginibus: the scribe neglected to repeat the ima. Ezcita imaginibus Lach. Esse im imaginibus Avanc. Nauger. Lamb. vulg. without meaning. Esse et Mar. Junt. rerum Laeh. for eorum, as in 43. carum Mar. Junt.
104 formae rerum similesque Ed. for formarum dissimilesque: comp. Camb. Journ. of phil. 1 p. 43; I have since learnt that Hugo Purmann hit upon the same correction before me: dissimilesque was written merely to fill up the verse. formarum illis similesque Lach. formarum consimilesque Lamb. vulg.
116 quorum H. Purmaun Lucr. quaest. p. 27, corum Lach. for eorum. eorum ut Camb. Vat. 1136 Othob. Mar. Junt. ut horum Vat. 3276 Pont. Nauger. eorum…nulla ut possit Avanc.
After 126 not a few vss. must have been lost. Heins. in ms. notes says ‘aliquid deest’: Haverc. suspected the same. Lach. by an elaborate and acute calculation shews or endeavours to shew that one page of the archetype containing 25 lines and one heading, Esse item maiora, has been lost. That a page of the archetype ended with 126 is certain; that another page commenced with 127, and that this page was a left-hand or even-numbered page is no less certain, as Lach. has demonstrated. It is also perhaps more probable that 25 lines were here lost, than double that number or more, because the poet in 115 says, as Lach. points out, percipe paucis. But Lachmann’s calculation, taken in conjunction with his general theory of the mode in which AB and the other mss. descended from the archetype, involves a great difficulty which is discussed above p. 27, 28. Lach. thus continues the sentence of 126 duobus [4ttingas digitis]: Haverc. [Contrectes digitis]. Among the lost verses Laeh. places this fragment, qui fulmine claro Omnia per sonitus arcet, terram mare caelum: whieh I believe belongs to Ennius, not to Lucr. at all, as it has nothing of his style about it; and Servius Aen. I 30 assigns it distinctly to the former, while the words of Probus to ecl. VI 31 are ambiguous.
129—142, strangely transposed in the mss. as may be seen by our left-hand numbering, were first brought into order by the acuteness of Lamb.: see above p. 30 for a possible explanation of this disorder.
138 motu. nam. motum in Nicc. the cause of great confusion in later mss. and eds. before Mar. Junt. and Lamb.
143 genantur Lamb. for gerantur: a necessary change here, though he often introduces the word without cause.
After 144 a verse has manifestly been lost: it is curious that Marullus and Lamb. should have overlooked this. ‘deest Percipe vel Expediam, tum paucula a quibus illud enim quod subicitur pendeat? Lach.
147 and 152 vitrum Oppenrieder for vestem: a necessary correction which it is strange neither Lamb. nor Lach. should have made: Lamb. indeed sees the difficulty involved in vestem, Lach. does not: comp. 602,
152 potis est Lach. for possunt. autem. ante Mon. Ven. and hence Avanc. Junt. and all eds. before Lach.
159 genuntur Lamb. for geruntur: here too a necessary correction.
167 Res ibi A and most mss. and eds. Res sibi B Camb. Ven, which Lach. thinks ‘unice verum’. Res tibi Gif.
178 teratur Pont. Junt. most properly for jeratur.
179 tendunt Lamb, for tendit. Lach. puts this verse after 175, reading tendat, and momine for numine with Mar. Junt., a change which I am now not inclined to acquiesce in: see II 632, and Epicurus cited in notes 2.
190 fulgere AB Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. Mon. 3 Vat. fulgure 2 Vat. Brix. Ven. Mar. eds. before Lach.
195 Lach. places after 205: I wrongly followed him formerly.
199 208 in my small ed. 1 allowed by accident Lachmann’s punctuation to stand: of course there should be a comma after si and after 203, the apodosis beginning at Quid quae.
206 Quone, Nonne B corr. Pont. Mar. vulg.
211 diu AB Nicc. divovulg. before Lach.
213 mundi. mundo Lach. but here, as I 1060 and IV 418, he seems not to feel that Lucr. calls the reflected image a mundus: a quite natural notion, 216 mira. mitti Lach.; but Lucr. is here speaking not simply of the emission of images, but of their enormous velocity. I therefore keep mira, and suppose with Purmann Jahn’s Jahrb. vol. 67 p. 676 and Goebel obs. Lucret. p. 25 that a verse is lost.
218 fluunt Lamb. rightly, as VI 924, for fluant. This and the ten following verses, which are repeated in the sixth book, were undoubtedly read in the fourth by Gellius and Nonius. There is no question therefore that Lucr. or his editor placed them here; there is just as little question that they are much more appropriate in vi than here. [219 ut. See n. to VI 925.]
229 is ejected by Lach. here and in the sixth book: it must I think be retained in both places; for to say that we always perceive all things is a simple absurdity: we always have sensation, and may at any time, if we please, exert the sense of sight smell hearing: again Perpetuo…et omnia semper would be an intolerable tautology.
240 didita Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. tur.
250 and 251, 260 and 261: Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. first have these verses in their right order.
260 privam Gif. for prinam; ‘ex v. c.’ he says.
267 ipsam Nicc. B corr. for ipsa.
270 semota Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for remota: so 288. remmota B, which may be right.
271 and 278 quae vere transpiciuntur. Lach. possessed by his theory of quod genus (see II 194) without any authority reads sunt, bene for vere, and ruins the argument.
275 tum cernitur. cum Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. etc. which has caused much confusion in the eds. before Lach.
277 perterget Lamb. first for perteget: (so perteget AB in 249; but there perterget Nicc.) pertinget Nicc. and so all before Lamb.
283 ubi speculum Mar. Junt. for ubi in speculum.
284 in idem Ed. for in eum: id was absorbed by in, and em was then changed to eum: in was lost after id in IV 1087. — iterum Lach.
290 Illie quor reddant Ed. for Illis quae reddunt. Lach. puts this verse after 270, where it is quite out of place: from 107 it is manifest that the images, not the real things, ‘reddunt speculorum ex aequore visum ‘. Lamb. and Creech think 289—291 spurious: Wak. as usual sees no difficulty in the ms. reading and boldly calls in the Pythagoreans to the rescue.
299—347 (828—347 299—322) were first placed in their proper order by Lamb. after B corr. This is one of the main passages which enabled Lach. so acutely to determine the number of lines in a page of the lost archetype of all our mss. These 49 verses—three headings amount to fifty-two or twice twenty-six; that is to say the original ms. had twenty-six lines in a page, and by some chance one leaf, the 76th, had its pages inverted; hence the transposition: see introduction p. 27. The marg. of Flor. 29 in the writing of Politian apparently, and Mar. give the same order as the Junt. viz. 298 323—325 299—322 348—8352 326—341 353—363 342—347 364 of the ms. order, or that on the left of my edition.
299 et elisam B corr. Flor. 31 Camb. for et lisam.
300 Fiet ita, ante Lach. for Fiet ut ante. — Fiet ut…hic idem Mar. Ald. 1 Junt.
303 sexve Mar. Junt. for sex. aut sex Lach.
304 latebunt Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for latebit.
310 convertitur Lach. for convertit: see 295 and 317. retrorsum A corr. B for retro rursum has caused much confusion in old eds.
318 porro pariter A Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. etc. pariter porro B. Mon.
321 nequeunt. mequeant A Nicc. wrongly.
342 illius Flor. 31 Camb. Ver. Ven. Mar. for wllius.
346 840 aer Ater Bern. for Ater. ater, Aera Lach. ater Continuo r. s. adaperta s. Flor. 31 Camb. vulg. without meaning.
351 que vias B corr. Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. for quia.
352 coniecta Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for contecta. movere Bentl. rightly for moveri,
357 acies Nicc. B corr. for ates. perlabitur Lamb. ed. 3 first for deriabitur; from whom Gif, ed. 2 took it without acknowledgment. derivabitur Nicc. delabitur Avanc. illabitur Max. Junt. adlabitur Lamb. ed. 1 and 2. arlabitur Gif. ed. 1.
361 tornum Flor. 31 2 Vat. Brix. Mar. for turnum. tortum Camb. terantur Ed. for tuantur. tuamur Lach., but ad tornum has no sense or construction with tuantur or tuamur, as Lamb. saw, who reads tornata ut for ad tornum, a violent change.
378 abluit Ver. Ven. Mar. for adluit.
395 videntur Lach. for videtur, as plur. ea follows. In small ed. I thought that after 397 a verse was lost of this nature, Fallere saepe animum simili ratione videmus; but see notes 2. Lach. reads Exstant usque for Ezstantisque.
406 tibi tum Nauger. first for ubi tum.
414 conlectus Lamb. for coniectus: see III 198.
418 A has properly ut before videare: caelum appears to have come from caeli of 417 or caelo of 419: see notes 2: Flor. 31 has mirando; Nicc. Camb. etc. miranda. Lach. seems to have misapprehended the matter, as in 213 and x 1061: he reads Ut prope miraclo for Corpora mirande, caeli for caelo, and transposes the two verses. But I have obeyed him in reading dispicere for despicere, as ms, authority is of little weight on such a point: comp. 421 dispeximus AB Nicc. for desp. Virgil’s mss. both in Aen. I 221 and georg. II 187 are nearly all in favour of despicere. Ph. Wagner philologus xv p. 352 quotes on the side of despicere Quintil. inst. vr prooem. 4 ‘nullam terras despicere providentiam ‘, but on referring to Zumpt ed. Spald. suppl. annot. I find that the best ms. Ambros. 1, and T’uric. p. m. have nulla in terras despicere, another terras dispicere: this passage therefore will not refute Lachmann’s position that dispicere nubila or despicere in nubila is ‘to look upon the clouds’, despicere nubila ‘to despise the clouds’: comp. for the former sense III 26 quin omnia dispiciantur; IV 421 in rapidas amnis despeximus undas; for the latter II 9 Despicere unde queas alios. AB on the whole support this distinction. Conington to Virgil l. 1. keeps despicere; and Aen. I 221 he says that the reason for the distinetion fails completely: but surely the fact that the personal passive despicior and the participle despectus always have the sense of being despised is some reason: to me indeed it is a conclusive one. Lamb. reads videre et Corpora mirando $s. t. a. c. but in ed. 3 he obelises et and the following verse.
421 despeximus Flor. 31 Camb. Ver. Ven. Mar. for dispexinuts.
436 At maris Nicc. B. corr. for Amaris.
437 fractis Flor. 31 Mar. for factas. undae Lach. for undas. wundis vulg.
440 liquorem Lach. for liquore.
446 ac vera ratione Is. Voss. in ms. notes for aque ratione: the scribe wrote ra only once: ‘quidam codices’ says Creech: that is he had heard indirectly of Vossius’ correction.
448 fit uti Mar. Junt. for fit ut.
456 videmur Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for videatur.
460 noctis B corr. Flor. 31 Camb. Pont. Mar. for montis.
462 miracuiu Ed. for mirande: acula was probably absorbed in multa and the word completed from 419. mirando Flor. 31 Vat. 1136 Othob. Mar. for mirande. miracli Lach. here as 419.
467 aegrius est. Later mss. and old. eds. also Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. Lamb. etc. egregius, absurdly.
468 addit A Nicc. Camb. 2 Vat. Junt. Creech. abdit B Flor. 31 3 Vat. Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Lamb. Wak. without meaning.
471 mittam Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for mituam.
472 sua in statuit Lach. for suo in statuit.
476 seusus Mar. Junt. for sensu,
486 poterunt Flor. 31 Camb. for 491 seorsum Bentl. for videri: a necessary poterit, poterint Mar. Ver. Ven.
493 videre Lach. for necessest which change. Lamb. here interpolates a verse.
495 Nascuntur Ver. Ven. Mar. for nashas come from a neighbouring verse. cantur.
496 possint Flor. 31 Mon. Pont. Ald. 1 Junt. for possunt. possent Camb.
498 aequa Flor. 31 Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for aeque.
500 poterit Nicc. for poteris.
514 si Nicc. B corr. for sibi.
517 Prava Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for parva.
526 vocem om. AB Nicc.: rightly inserted by Lach. before quoque enim: Flor. 31 Camb. vulg. place it after.
528 Praeterea radit A and Gellius x 26, one Vat. Pont. Avanc. rightly. Propterearadit B. Praeter radit Nicc. one Vat. Ver. Ven. whence Praeter radit enim Flor. 31 Camb. 3 Vat. Brix. Mar. Nauger. vulg. Praeter enim radit Junt.
532 expleti Lach. for expletis, thus simply healing a desperate passage. raditur B Politian in marg. Flor. 29: (creditur in text). reditur A Nicc.; hence redditur Flor. 31 Camb. vulg. and to give a meaning to the passage, Mar. Junt. add a verse Rauca viis, et iter laedit, qua vox it in auras; Avanc. taking oris as a plur. thus Rauca suis et iter reddit qua vox it in auras.
542 543 (551 552) rightly placed here by Lamb. first.
543 levo letiore AB. levis levore Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. laevor laevore Lamb.
545 murmure Brix. Pont. Mar, Ald. 1 Junt. for murmura.
546 Et reboat raucum regio cita barbara Lach. for Et revorat raucum retro cita barbara: the older readings are mostly too absurd to be mentioned. Derecynthia barbara Is. Voss. in ms. notes and in Catullus: Berecynthia cornua Bentl.
547 Et validis cycni torrentibus ex Heliconis Is. Voss. in ms. notes for Et validis necti tortis ex Heliconis of A: the middle words of this line, as of the preceding, were mutilated by some accident. Et cycni tortis convallibus Lach. nete tortis A corr. B. nece tortis Nicc.: hence a vast variety of strange readings, such as Et gelidis cycni nocte oris of Bern.
550 emittimus A corr. for mittimus.
551 verborum Lamb. for nervorum.
553 ‘lego una, unaquaeque vox perveniat. B’ Bentl. for illa.
560 illam. <lla Pont, Ald. 1 Junt. hilum Lamb. without cause.
563 verbum. peditum Nicc. and all later mss. and early eds.: hence edictum Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. vulg.: peditum came from the pedita of 562 catching the copyist/s eye.
567 verbi Lach. for verbis: a necessary change.
568 auris incidit. ‘aureis accidit. sic reposui, a Plauto et ceteris Latini sermonis auctoribus admonitus’ Lamb.; and Lach. thinks he is probably right, as Lucr. himself V 608 uses the same construction.
570 locis B eorr. Mar. for lopis. lapis Niee. Lach. as I now think without sufficient reason separates solidis adlisa from locis.
577 vocis: see n. to I 744 frugis. voces Lach. vulg.
578 ipsi. ipsis one Vat. Mon. Ver. Ven.: hence Ald. 1 Junt. vulg. before Wak.
579 docta referri Lach. for dicta referri. dicta referre Mar. Junt. vulg. icta referre Bentl. icta is also in Mon.
582 tocanti A corr. for locanti.
587 velamina Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. Mon. vulg. for ullamina. vallamina Heins. in ms. notes, Is. Voss. in ms. notes, Wak.
590 Cetera Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. for Petere.
594 nimis auricularum. | mimi’ miraclorum Lach. after Bentl.: thisisnow the third time he has introduced into his text the form miraclum, which is not once found in the mss. of Lucr.
598 videmus. ubi demus Lach.: but Conloquium clausis foribus videmus - C. cl. f. fieri v. and is not the same thing at all as Conloquiwum videmus. Cum loquimur clausis foribus, quod saepe videmus tangled atoms, never to the passages of things; yet Virgil has perplexum iter omne revolvens.
622 manantis Pont. Junt. for manantes.
624 sudantia. sidentia Lach. an elegant, but not I think necessary, change.
627 fine. n fine Lamb. etc. wrongly.
631 possis Flor. 31 Camb. Mon. Ver. Ven. for posses.
632 umidulum Lach. for umidum. — humectum Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. vulg.
633 cibw suavis et almus Ed. for eibus ut videamus: see Camb. Journ. of phil. 1 p. 41: for almus perhaps aptus with Lach. eibus unieus aptus Lach.; but unicus is not at all appropriate.
636 in added by Nonius p. 95, and est at end of verse rightly om. by the same.
638 Extetque ut serpens Ed. for Est itaque ut serpens: VI 690 Fert itque mss. for Fert itaque. Est aliquae ut serpens Lach. Est utique ut s. Mar. Junt. Lamb. ed. 3. Saepe etenim s. ed. 1 and 2.
641 eoturn. coeturn. A. quod turn. B.
642 Ut quibus id Lamb. ed. 2 and 8 for Id quibus ut.
648 et. ex Mon. Junt. Lamb. ed. 1 and 2, Lach. but et Mar. constant variante figura Lach. for constant variantque figura. distant variantque figura Lamb. ed. 3.
668 ut added by Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. Ut Lach. for Fit.
671 672 Lach. places after 662. Bernays supposes some verses to have been lost before them; I followed him in my small ed. but now believe there is no hiatus: see notes 2.
680 Volturiique Pont. Ald. 1 for Volturique. Vulturiique Mar. Junt.
681 promissa. permissa Gronov. Lach. ‘missa v. [not A or B] i.e. permissa i.e. immissa, concitata’ Is. Voss. in ms. notes.
682 Ducit. Dicit Lach. without cause.
698 creatum Mar. Junt. for creatam.
699 quam vox. voci Lamb. etc. perversely.
719 illis B corr. for ilus: ? ibus.
727 brattea AD, not braetea: so mss. of Virg.. Aen. VI 209.
730 per rara Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for perara.
735 Omne genus Mar. Junt. for Omnigenus. Omnigenum Nicc.:
736 fiunt Mar, Ald. 1 Junt. for Jiunt A, fluunt A corr. B.
740 anima AB, animai Nicc. and all before Gif. animalis Lamb. ed. 3 vulg. Lach. animantis Gif. most properly, as Lucr. does not use the substantive animal in the singular, except V 823, where omne animal is equivalent to omnia animalia: see notes 2 there.
741 ubi equi atque hominis casu. ubi equi casu atque hominis Lach. who denies that the last syll. of an iambus is ever elided in Lucr.
752 docui quoniam. quoniam docui Lamb. ed. 2 and 3, etc. and Lach. leonem Lach. for leonum. leones Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. vulg.
755 leonem et cetera Lach. for leonum cetera: et was already added by Mar. Ald. 1 and Junt.: Lamb. Creech Wak. all blunder sadly here.
761 Rellicta vita Bern. for Reddita vita, and before him Is. Voss. in ms. notes ‘Relicta vita, malim tamen Reddita media produeta ut Salmasius’. Reddita pro v. Lach. —
788 $i terrast cordi Ed. for si terram cordist. [si terra est cordi Pont. before me, as I now find.] ‘The frequency with which our mss. thus transpose this st is very remarkable: see Lach. to II 275 who cites ten instances: so 799, the repetition of 774, has Tanta mobilitast. si terra est, si cordi Junt.
795 Cum sentimus id, et cum Ed. for Consentimus id est cum: a slight and necessary alteration. Lamb. and Lach. in vain declare the verse to be out of place: the latter puts it, thus altered Quod sentimus, id est? cet., before 783, where it sadly involves the construction.
798 sint Flor. 31 Camb. Pont. Mar, for sin B, in A Nicc. locis Flor. 31 and Candidus at end of Junt. for locos.
799 800 801—774 771 772: an evident gloss here. Lamb. retains the first and rejects the two last; while he wrongly obelises the whole three in their former place, where they cannot be dispensed with.
802 nisi quae contendit. nisi se contendit Lamb. prompted he says by 809, and Lach.: but see notes 2.
804 nisi si quae ad se ipse Lach. for nisi que ex se ipse. — nisi sic sese ipse Lamb.
805 futurum Pont. Junt. for futuram.
815 Praeterquam Avanc. for Praeterea quam.
818 non Brix. Pont. Mar. for nos.
820 vir uti B corr. Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. for virtuti. virtunc Nicc. vir tum Lamb. etc.
822 (826) brought here by B corr. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt.
823 avessis Ed. for inesse: p. 1710f the archetype, the terminations of the lines therefore being towards the outer margin, ended with 827: by some chance then s the last letter of this line, and the three last, mus, of 826 were lost; avessi was then changed to inesse, quea to via. vitium vementer rebu’ necessest Lach.: a violent alteration. inesto Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. Gronov. avemus Te effugere Bern.
824 errorem vitareque B corr. Avanc. for errore multareque. errore multas que premeditentur Flor. 31 Camb. one Vat. corruptly for e. v. praemetuenter (praemetuentur A): this has led to further corruptions by Mar. Junt. Lamb. etc.
826 possemus Lach. for possimus, as the usage of Lucr. requires. queamus Lach. for via: see above to 823: the vulg. viai has no sense.
830 ex added by Lach. a Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. vulg.
836 nata. natum Lach. as in 850: but as nata gives a good sense, I have retained it: it seems to me more elegant than the other, 862 quae quia Lach. for quia. et quia Vat. 3276 Brix. Pont. haec quia Wak. his,quia Ald. 1 Junt. his quae Mar. iis, quae Lamb.
863 foll.: by a better stopping I have made the passage quite clear: the apodosis of the sentence begins with His igitur. Lach. inverts 863 and 861. Comp. 203.
877 fiat Camb. Brix. Pont. Mar. for flat.
878 varieque Ver. Ven. Mar. for vareque.
884 quisquam quam Brix. Mar. for quis quam.
885 Id quod. At, quod Lamb. Gif. Creech etc. wrongly. constat Flor. 31 Mar. for constare.
890 ferit Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for perit.
897 is corrupt: see notes 2. Corpus ut ad navis Ed. in ed. 2. Aeque id ut ac navis Bern. and Ed. in ed. 1. Corporis ut Camb. Vat. 3276: also Lach. after Muretus. Corpus uti, ut Lamb. Creech. velis ventoque. remis ventoque Gassendi opera 11 p. 506 b.
905 pondere magno. ‘immo pondera magna’ Lach. without good reason: comp. V 556.
915 Tutimet Ed. with AB Nicc. Tutemet vulg. Lach.
929 confiat Pont. Lach. for conftat. confletur Flor. 31 Lamb. vulg.
934 eius. ab ibus Lach.: but see notes 2.
944 fit uti AB Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. sicuti Brix. sicut Ver. Ven. sic, ut Pont. Mar. vulg. wrongly.
945 Eiciatur Lamb. for Eliciatur.
952 953, though perfectly sound, are much corrupted by Lamb. Creech vulg. Is. Vossius’ ms. note is worth quoting, as Haverc. and Preiger misrepresent, and consequently Wak. and Lach. misapprehend it; ‘omnino legend.: poplitesque cubanti Ald. 1 Junt. quoi…devinctus Lamb. without reason.
964 in ea. in qua Mar. Junt. vulg. wrongly.
982 consessum Mar. Junt. for consensum.
983 Scenaique Brix. (?), Pont. Ald. 1 Junt. for Scenatque.
984 voluptas Lach. for voluntas.
989 de palma summas Lamb. for palmas. palmis A corr. Nicc. all before Lamb.
990 saepe quiete which mss. add at end has of course come from 991 (999) and supplanted the words of Lucr. colligere aestum Lach. offers: velle volare might also do.
991 (999) was brought here by Ald. 1 Junt. and by Mon., but there 998 999 (997 998) precede it.
992 vocis: see n. to I 744 frugis. voces Lach. vulg.
996 fugae Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. first for fuga.
997 redeant erroribus Lamb. after Turnebus for redeant terroribus.
1000—1005 are merely 992—995 repeated because of 991 (999): see introduction p. 29.
1005 quo. quam Lamb. wrongly. seminiorum. semina eorum Lamb. ‘Marull. et vulg. semina eorum’ says Gif. and so Mar. changes seminiorum of Mon. to semina eorum. Junt. has rightly seminiorum.
1009 que wrongly added by Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. vulg. at end: see II 118.
1011 motibus Mon. Pont. Ald. 1 Junt. vulg. for montibus. Magua 1 join with what precedes. Magna etenim Mar. Junt. Lamb. wrongly. mentes, magnis qui mentibus e. M. Lach. strangely.
1021 Ut qui A p. m. rightly. Ut quasi BA corr. Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. all Vat. Mon. etc.: hence much confusion before Wak. Se quasi Mar.
1022 Externantur Lach. for Exterruntur. Exterrentur vulg.
1026 sei Lach. for se: Mar. Junt. vulg. omit se in 1027, and 1028 insert ut after (Avanc. before) saccatum, and read fundant with Brix. (?) Ver. Ven.
1032 quoque. quodam Lach. without reason I think.
1036 cruentent Flor. 31 Camb. for cruentet.
1037 id in nobis Flor. 31 Camb. Pont. Avanc. at end of Catullus for id nobis. id e Lach. idem Brix. Ver. Ven. Avanc, in Ald. 1.
1038 adulta B corr. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for advita.
1057 muta A Nicc. TFlor. 31 Camb. Mon. old eds. Junt. multa B Avanc. Nauger. Lamb. vulg. before Lach.
1058 nomen. momen Lach. most unpoetically; Creech more elegantly, but without necessity, numen: see Camb, Journ. of phil 1 p. 85. Lach. also in the next verse wrongly puts a stop at illaec. illaec A eorr. for ille A, illa B. illace Nicc. one Vat. illa et Flor. 31 Camb. 3 Vat. Pont.
1060 frigida. fervida Mar. Junt. (not Nauger.) Creech.
1061 ames. aves Lach. without necessity: see notes 2.
1065 conlectwum (collectum) Junt. not Pont. or Mar. for coniectum. congestum Avanc. at end of Catullus.
1081 adjligunt A Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. all Vat. Mon. rightly. adfigunt B Pont. and in marg. Mar. Junt. Lamb. etc.
1083 illaec germina Lach. after a friend of Lamb. for illae cermina (?) A p. m. ille germina B. ille haec germina A corr. Nicc.: see 1059.
1085 refrenat Nicc. for frenat.
1089 cuius quom, Tum Ed. for cuius quam, Tam. cuius quo mage Lach. cuius quo pluria Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. quam pluria Lamb. etc. which is not Latin. [But comparing Ter. heaut. 997 Nam quam maxime huic vana haec suspicio Erit, tam factllume patris pacem in leges conficiet suas; Cato r. r. 85 9 Quam plurimum bibit, tam maxime sitit; and old poet (ine. fab. 160 Ribb.) ap. Quintilian 1x 3 15 Quam magis aerumna urget, tam magis ad maleficiendum urget; and Aen. vit 787 quoted there: perhaps Lucr. mixed the two constructions and wrote as his mss. give. Compare too Plaut. aul. 229 Quam ad probos propinquitate proxume te adiunzeris, Tam optumumst: and see Ussing there.]
1096 raptast Ed. for raptat. rapta est Vat. 3276 Pont. Candidus at end of Junt. Wak. mentem spes raptat Lach. mentem spe lactant or captant Bentl.
1098 membris stinguere B corr. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for flunt.
1130 Alidensia of mss. may be right: see notes 2. alideusia Lach. very ingeniously; but yet alideusia is not even a known Greek word. ac Melitensia Ceaque Lamb. after ‘Adrianus Turnebus, seu potius Gul. Pelliserius, Epise. Montepessul) Ciaque Lach. for chia: so Cic. de nat. deor. I 118 Prodicus Cius Victorius: chiuis or chius mss.
1131 ludi A corr. Nicc. for luidi. lychni Lach.: but see notes 2; and V 295 from which it appears that Lucr. wrote [Fehini or luchini or lichini.
1141 mala haec Flor. 31 Camb. 2 Vat. Pont. Mar. for male haec.
1145 inliciaris Ald. 1, ill. Mar. Junt. for inligniaris: so m1 553 linguntur mss. for licuntur.
1152 Aut Lach. for Ut. Et Pont. Mar. Tum Nauger. vulg. si quam petis Lach. for quam praepetis A Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. quam precis D. quam percupis Lamb.
1156 deliciis Camb. Mar. for delictis.
1168 At tumida Bern. for At iamina: this I had myself seen many years ago on comparing Ovid ars II 661, where he is imitating Lucr. A4t Lamia Avanc. Lach. At gemina Lamb. vulg.
1174 turpi Nauger. for turpis.
1176 longe Flor. 31 Camb. for longi.
1180 iam ammissum (admissum) Lamb. for iam missum. iam ammissu Lach. iam iussu Bern. iam immissum Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. venientem. weniens Ald. 1 Junt. Bentl.
1183 Stultitia. Stultitiae Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. Lach.
1188 possis Mar. Junt. for posses.
1189 inquirere risus. $n usus Pont. Junt. lusus Mar. Candidus at end of Junt. anquirere nisus Lamb. Creech etc.
1191 et added by Mar. Laeh. Praetermittet te Junt. Lamb.
1198 possent. Lach. reads possunt, and refers quod illorum subat to the male.
1200 salientum Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for sallentum. retractat Lamb. ed. 2 and 3 first for retractant,
1201 etiam om. Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. 2 Vat. Brix. Ver. Ven. memi one Vat. illos 2 Vat. etiam of AB rightly added by Pont. and Avanc.
1202 vinclis Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for vinciis.
1203 quam Lach. for cum. quin Mar. Junt. Lamb. ed. 1 and 2. non saepe Lamb. ed. 3, Creech.
1204 (1210) first brought here by Nauger.
1207 lacere Lamb. and above 1146 laciamur, without cause.
1209 semine. semen would simplify the constr.
1210 vim vicit Salmasius for vi mulcit: a certain correction, which Wak. and Lach. justly adopt: the older readings are not worth mentioning; Lamb. in vain tries to extricate himself: it appears from 500 instances that in our archetype, as in other mss. written in square capitals, and i were often undistinguishable: 824 errore multareque, I 659 ver aula AB.
1220 multa modis Lamb. ed. 2 and 3 for multimodis; and, although Junt. has multimodis in the text, it would appear from his note at the end that Candidus intended to print multa modis.
1225 1226 (1227 1228) I have transferred hither, the sense requiring the change.
1227 de added by Flor. 31 Pont. Mar. Junt. a Avanc. magis. minus Lamb. followed by all before Lach.
1230 quodeunque Flor. 31 Camb. Ver, Ven. Mar. for quocumque.
1234 pater a gnatis Brix.?, Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for praeter agnatis.
1243 cedit Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for credit.
1252 post sunt Lamb. first for possunt; though Lucr. perhaps wrote pos sunt: comp. 1186 poscaenia.
1259 Crassane Ed. for Crassaque; as refert conveniant does not seem Latin any more than III 868 differre fuerit, and que is quite superfluous. conveniant Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for conveniunt.
1262 aliis Ver. Ven. Mar. for alii.
1268 Nec Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for Ne. Non Camb.
1270 retractat B. retractet A and all other mss. and eds. before Lach.
1281 modis Pont. Mar. Junt. for moris.
1282 te secum Bern, for secum. secum nos Lach. vir secum Flor. 31 Camb. vulg. ‘Italice magis quam Latine’ says Lach.
Book V
Section titled “Book V”2 maiestate hisque repertis Lamb. for maiestatis atque repertis: he proposes also maiestate atque r. maiestatisque repertis Nicc. and all before Lamb.
29 foll. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. and all succeeding eds. invert 30 and 31; I transpose 29 and 30: again Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. and all before Lach. insert between nobis and Stymphala the words uncisque timendae Unguibus Arcadiae volucres. Lach. weakly reads et aves for nobis. I have no doubt a verse has fallen out before 29 (30), beginning with Quid: such for instance as this Quid volucres pennis acratis invia stagna.
31 Thracis Ed. for Thracia. Thracam Lach. Thracen Ald. 1 Junt.: see Camb. Journ. of phil. 1 p. 44.
34 stirpem Mon. Nauger. (stipem Mar. Junt.) for stirpes.
35 Atlanteum Gif. (4tlantaeum Lamb. and Turneb. first) for 4tianeum. |Oceanwm propter Nicc. followed by many: Oceanum was probably written in the margin of Poggio’s ms. to explain Atlanteum. pelageque Lamb. for pelagique. sonora Nicc. (not Flor. 31 or Camb.) Mon. Brix. Ver. Ven. Ald. 1 Junt. Nauger. Lach. for severa: it was probably in Poggio’s ms.: Pont. in marg. ‘alii severa’.
38 Sei Lach. St Nicc. for Sed.
44 tumst Lach. for sunt. tunc Lamb. Gif. ed. 1. Lamb. ed. 3 remarks ‘hunc locum Zoilus…secutus est tacitus et dissimulans, tamquam integrum in aliis libris repertum et non a me emendatum’: Gif. then ed. 2 reads pericula est, and says ‘sic scripsi. in o. v. sunt. Marull. et vulg. tunc’: now when Lamb. had so pointedly drawn attention to it, Gif. must have been a most impudent liar, if he did not find tunc in Marullus’ ms. notes; though Mon. has no trace of it. Junt. reads sunt.
51 numero divom. divum numero Lactant.
53 Immortalibus Flor. 31 Mar. Inmortalibus B Camb. lam mortalibus A Nicc. etc. de Lamb. for e.
61 incolumis Mar. Junt. for incolumen A, vinculum est B, incolumé Camb. — 71 Quove. Quoque Nonius, contrary to the use of Lucr.
114 Religione Nicc. Ver. Ven. Relligione AB in this place only, Flor. 31 Camb. Mon.
117 par Mar. Junt. for pars: comp. 881
122 a, numine distent Flor. 31 Camb. Brix. Mar. for animinbistent. animilastent Nicc.
133 longiter. longius mss.: see II 789.
152 quod Mar. Junt. for quod si.
154 de corpore, pro corpore Lamb. conj. and Ed. in ed. 1: see notes 2. tenuest si corpu’ deorum Lach. tenues ceu corpora eorum Ed. in small ed.
162 ulla vi ex. ullum de Lamb. Creech etc. most gratuitously.
174 175 (175 176) rightly placed by Lamb. before 176 (174): but for credo, which can scarcely be right, I propose crepera. Lach. whom I followed formerly, puts them before 170, and reads At for 4m in 174.
182 divis hominum unde est Ed. for hominum divis unde est. hominum dis unde est Wak, Lach. est om. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. Lamb. etc. divisum deest Nicc. Mon. Ver. Ven.
185 sese Brix. Pont. Mar. for se.
186 specimen Pius in notes for speciem.
187 multa modis Lamb. ed. 1 and 2 rightly for multimodis; but ed. 3 again multimodis: see 422.
191 possent for possint Lach. rightly, as 426.
193 meatus Flor. 31 Mar. for maestus.
195 si added by Mar. Ald. 1 Junt.
201 avidei partem Ed. for avidam partem. avide Bern. aliquam Lach. ‘Marull. aliam pessime’ Gif.: Junt. as Ald. 1 has avidam: but in marg. of Mon. ‘avidam partem’ is noted as strange.
227 restet transire Lactant. and Nicc. for re et transirest, that curiously frequent blunder of AB: see IV 783.
239 eodem omnis Gif. rightly for eadem omnis, and before him the Paris ed. of Pius. tota eadem Lamb.
241 nativo ac mortalibus Lach. for nativom mortalibus: not Naugerius who has nativo mortalibus. nativo et mortalibus Avane, in notes at end of his Catullus, and vulg. nativo in mortalibus Mar.
248 Me mihi B most rightly. Memini A. Memmi vulg.: hence Lamb. me arripuisse for corripuisse in 247.
251 non nulla Nicc. Camb. Ver. Ven. Mar. for non ulla.
257 alid Lamb. ed. 1 and 2 for alit rightly; ed. 3 he restores alit.
258 Redditur. Roditur Mar. Junt. Lamb. vulgo before Wak.
282 recenti B corr. Flor. 31 Camb. Mon. for regenti.
288 disperit Nicc. B corr. for disperis.
291 Et Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for Ut.
295 lychini Ed. for lyclini. — lychni A corr. Nicc. Macrob.: Lucr. seems to have known only the trisyllabic form, whether he wrote lychini or luchini or lichini; or even one of the still older forms lucini or licini. Ritschl in Rhein. Mus. n. f. x p. 447—451 shews that Enu. ann. 328 wrote lucinorum lumina bis ser; Lucilius lucinosque or luchinosque: so dracuma mina (uvd), tecina (réxvy), ciicinus or cicinus (kókvos), and other like forms all arising from the dislike of the old Latins to certain combinations of consonants: comp. Aesculapius Alcumena Hercules and many such like. Lucr. or his editor may have written y, as it was introduced for Greek words just before his death: the aspirated ch was in common use some 40 years earlier, as Ritschl proves.
296 caligine. fuligine Bentl. and Wak. from a sheer misunderstanding of Lucr.
297 properant Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for proferant.
300 ab omnibus. obortis Bruno (Harburg 1872, p. 9).
301 celeri celatur Mar. Madvig and Lach. for celeri celeratur. toleratur Nicc. Ver. Ven. Ald. 1 vulg. Junt. keeps the celeratur of Mon., Candidus not having observed that Marullus had put points of rejection under the er.
302 putandumst Lach. for putandum: see I 111.
312 sene senescere Ed. for cumque senescere: see Journ. of phil. n. s. rv p. 122 and notes 2. sibi qui de se quoque dicat Polle. Aeraque proporro solidumque senescere ferrum Ed. formerly: see Camb. Journ. of phil.: p. 373 and v p. 142. Quae fore proporro vetitumque senescere credas Lach. — Cedere proporro subitoque senescere casw Mar. Junt. Lamb. ed. 1 and 2, Creech. Lamb. ed. 3 obelises this and adds the ms. verse. Is. Voss. (not Preiger) in ms. notes has Quae ruere proporro ibi conque senescere credas. [Quare proporro sibi cumque senescere credas) Bern.: Gif. and Wak. find no difficulty in the ms. reading.
318 omnem Mar. Junt. for omne.
319 si om. Nicc. and all later mss.: hence much confusion in eds. before Lach., Havercamp not deigning to record that AB both had si. omme…terrai Avanc. terram, quod Mar. Junt. vulg.
331 Naturast mundi Ald. 1, Natura est Mar. Junt. for Natura mundist: this common blunder of our mss. Wak. here keeps.
339 periisse Flor. 31 for perisse.
342 atque oppida Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. for at oppida. ac Nicc. 2 Vat. Brix. Ver. Ven. Wak.
349 isdem Pius in notes, Lamb. for idem which Lach. keeps: see II 693. Lach. was the first to join inter nos with what follows.
367 coorta Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for coperta.
368 Corruere. Proruere Lamb. etc.
375 {mmani. immamne Bruno l. l. p. 10: he thinks that 369 and 372 are interpolations.
382 certaminis ollis Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. for certamini solis.
385 patrantur. patrarunt Goebel.
386 ultraque. ultroque Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. vulg.
393 inter se inserted by Lach. before, by Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. Mon. vulg. after de rebus.
396 superat (perf) et lambens Lach. for superavit et ambens. lambens B corr.: nor has ambens any existence, whether as partic. of ambedo or ambio.
399 tum Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. for cum.
405 Graium Flor. 31 Camb. Pont. Mar. for gratum. graium (gratum) Ver. Ven.
409 410 Lach. by a strange misapprehension inverts these verses and for Aut pereunt reads Et pereunt.
412 urbis Pont. Junt. for undis. Flor. 31 Camb. Ver. Ven. Mar. etc. keep undis, and for hominum multas read hominum multos.
428 Omne genus Lach. for Omnigenus. Omnigenos A corr. vulg.
429 convecta Lach. for conventa. T. c. quae ubi convenere Lamb. ed. 1; T. ea c. quae ut convenere ed. 2 and 3, followed by Creech, etc.
430 fiunt Flor. 31 Camb. for fluunt. saepe. semper, as II 1062 Lach.
433 Altivolans Pont. Avanc. and Maerob. sat. VI 2 23 for Alte volans. Alta volans Mar. Junt.
437—442 (440—445) are thus arranged by Lach. after Reisacker quaest. Lucr.; and the necessity of this change is manifest, though Macrob. 1. 1. evidently read them in the order in which they appear in our mss, See what I say on this and similar points p. 30.
437 Omne genus de Lach. as before, for Omnigenus e B, Omnigenis e A Nicc. vulg.
447 umore Macrob. B corr. Vat. 3276 Pont. Junt. for umor. humorque Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb, 4 Vat. Brix. Ver. Ven. Avanc.
459 Ignifer. Signifer Ver. Ven. Ald. 1 Junt. (not Mar.) Lamb. etc. on no ms. authority, though Lamb. falsely says all mss. have it.
460 463 videmus… Ezhalantque. videntur…Exalare Lach.: a violent change which only impairs the beauty of the passage.
468 flexit Lach. for saepsit: saepsit has come from 470.
471 secuta. ‘secuta, et Y’ (i.e. our A) says Havercamp. This is quite false: though he had A and B before him, he has chosen to copy out this, as well as three fourths of his worthless various readings, from the bookseller Tonson’s London ed. of 1712, which gives ‘collationes trium ms. codicum Vossii a R3v Viro R’? Cannon S. T. P. factas’: this collator says ‘secuta, &. V. 1. Haverc. copies even the comma and the a into his ed. This is but one of a thousand instances of his unprincipled sloth.
472 476 Interutrasque. Interutraque Lach.
474 fuerunt. fuerint Pont. Avanc. and strange to say Lamb. who made it the vulg. before Lach.
482 salso suffudit A corr. Lamb. for salsos offudit. salso suffodit Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. Mon. etc. Wak.
485 extrema ad limina in artum Ed. for extrema, ad limina partem: the scribe neglected to write ina twice, and to fill up the verse wrote partem for rtum. extrema a limini’ parte Lach. who connects this verse with the next. extrema ad limina apertam Lamb. e. a. l. raptim Bentl. radiis for radii A Nicc. Camb. lumina Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. etc.
491 Densebant Lamb. Lach. for Densabant, as our mss. in all other places make it of the 2nd conjugation: see Wagn. to Virg. geor. I 248, 503 Commiscet Nauger. first for Commisci. haec. hic Bentl. and Lach.; but see notes 2.
507 Pontos, mare Lach. for ponto mare. Ponti mare Pont. Lamb. ed. 3, tantum mare ed. 1 and 2.
513—516 Lach. quite misapprehends and sadly mutilates this passage:
513 he reads deorsum for eodem, 515 Hinc for Aut; and places 514 after 516: not one of these changes but mars the sense.
515 Aut. Ast Nauger. vulg. wrongly. qui Mar. Nauger. rightly for quis.
518 lucida Flor. 31 Ver. Ven. Mar. for lucia.
521 Summania: see notes 2. immania Creech in notes, Lach. Pont. says ‘summania pro immania’. se immania Avanc.in notes at end of Catullus, Lamb. perversely. I once thought of summa avia.
530 omne D corr. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for omnem.
531 sit in hoc quoque causa Ed. for sit et haec quoque causa. siet haec Lach.: but haec has no force and has come from the neighbouring causa. siet hic Bern.
533 progredientis Lamb. for progredientes: est for licet is not Lucretian.
536 supter. subter Flor. 31 Mar. Junt. for super.
538 vivit. crevit Lach. sidit Lamb. ed. 2 and 3 ‘ex antiquae scripturae quae reperitur in codice Dertin. vestigiis’, and Heins. notes that s, i.e. the ms. of Modius, has sidit, unless I mistake his meaning: but Modius made his collation with the small 2nd ed. of Lamb. so that it is probably a mere oversight; for B has vivit.
545 quid quaeque obeat res Ed. for quit queque quaeat res: Lach. to I 222 gives more than 40 instances in which AB change b to v: asvhen obeat became oueat, the further corruption to queat was inevitable with capitals. uveat Lach, vehat Gronovius and Is. Voss. in notes. gerat N. P. Howard. $55 uniter apta Pont. Junt. for uniter aucta:
558 uniter apta for uniter rapta B corr. Flor. 31 Camb. etc. as 537. Mar. has first corrected Mon., then written aucta above, and then apta in marg.; unless the first correction is from Pontanus, the other from Marullus: it is more than probable that Pontanus had the cod. Victor. in his hands before Marullus: comp. 1152.
559 pernici Brix. Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for pernice. pernice attollere Flor. 31: a mere conj.
560 Quid Lamb. in errata to ed. 3, Faber in his emend. for Quis. animi Lach. for animae; as 563.
563 Coniunctus Flor. 31 Camb. Pont. Mar. for Coniuncta, 567 Adicere (Adiicere) Lamb. for Adlicere: a confusion of which we have had 80 many examples.
568 Nil illa his intervallis Bern. for Nihil nisi intervallis. Nil ea in his int. Lach. — Illa ipsa intervalla nihil Lamb. — Nilque nisi ex int. Flor. 31 Camb. 3 Vat. Mar. libaunt Mar. Junt. for librant. limant Lamb. ed. 1 and 2, librant ed. 3.
570 (573) brought here by Mar. Ald. 1 Junt.
571 loca mulcent Lach. for loca fulgent. locatingunt Lamb. — 572 filumque Lamb. ed. 2 in notes and ed. 3 after Turnebus for ilumque. 574=571 (570).
581 minui filum Bentl. for mi filum.. minimum filum Nicc. vulg.
584 Quantaque quantast hinc Eichstádt for Quanto quoque quantast hinc, and in the repetition 596 Quanta quoque est tanta hinc: ‘qua emendatione’ says Lach. ‘effecit ut hic semel valde laudandus sit’. Quantaque sit, nobis tanta hinc Pont. Ald. 1 Junt. Quanta haec cumque fuat, tanta hinc Lamb.
586 ignes added by Mar. Ald. 1 Junt.: the ignes of 585 caused its omission. horum Flor. 31 Camb. flammae Lach. who says that ignes is an unmeaning repetition: but similar repetitions are very common in Lucr.
587 est added by Flor. 31 Camb. etc.
588 videtur A Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. Mon. etc. and Lamb. ed. 1. videntur B Lamb. ed. 2 and 3, perhaps rightly.
589 absunt Lach. for absit: a necessary change. cum longius absint Lamb.
590 591 (594 595) first brought here by Mar. Ald. 1 Junt.
598 lumen. flumen Avanc. Lamb. etc. without any authority.
599 quia AB. qua Nicc. Flor. 31 (Lach. is in error) Camb. Mon. all Vat. Brix. Ver. Ven. Ald. 1 Junt. quo Lamb. etc. — vaporis Lamb. first for vapore.
605 percipiat Nauger. for percipitat.
609 Accedere A. Accidere B. — Accendere A corr. Nicc. 2 Vat. Ver. Ven. Accendi Flor. 31 Camb. 3 Vat. Brix. Pont. Avanc. Nauger. Accipere Mar. Junt. Lamb.: see II 1025.
610 et. e Lach. who will never tolerate et for etiam.
613 Aestifer ut tantum Flor. 31 3 Vat. Mar. Junt. for Aestiferi utantum B, utantur A Nicc. Aestiferum ut tantum Avanc. Lamb. etc. Aestiferum tantum Nauger.
614 simplex et certa Ed. for simplex recta. simplex nec certa Lamb. simplex aut recta Flor. 31 Camb. 3 Vat. ac recta or et recta others. simplex rellata Lach. reclusa. Bern.
617 Cancri se Lach. for Canceris.
648 illa Flor. 31 Camb. Pont. Mar. for ille.
651 sol ultima Camb. Vat. 1136 and 1954 Othob. for solvet ima caeli. sol extima Flor. 31 Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. etc. Politian in marg. Flor. 29 has both ultima and extima.
656 Matuta Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for matura.
667 possunt Lach. for possit. possint vulg. contrary to the unvarying usage of Lucr.
675 Fulhnina Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. first for Flumina.
679 Consequé quoque iam redeunt Lach.. for Consequiae quoque iam rerum: a brilliant emendation. Consequae 2 Vat, Ver. Ven. Consequa natura est iam rerum Flor. 31 Camb. 3 Vat. Mar. vulg. Consequitur quoque iam series Pont.
689—693 Lach. has quite causelessly altered this passage in many points:
690 for metas he reads metans as Pont. before him: [caeli Mar. for caelum:]
692 and 693 he inverts, 693 for obliquo he reads obliqui, joining it with orbis: he will not have serpens, lustrans in apposition any more than 594 euntis, pascentis; or VI 1141 veniens, ortus, and 1260 languens, comveniens; though suchlike constructions are common in Lucr. and in Cicero’s Aratea which Lucr. often imitates.
692 concludit Lach. for contudit. contundit Mon. Brix. vulg.
704 it seems to me manifest that the poet refers to 660—665, and that a verse is lost such as this, Qui faciunt solis nova semper lumina gigni: probably its resemblance to 708 caused its omission. Lach. strangely supposes the sentence complete and joins 704 with 703, as if anybody could ever deny that the sun rose in a certain quarter:
704 which by itself has no meaning was placed after 714 by Nauger. followed by all before Lach.
705 percussa Flor. 31 Camb. before Lamb. for perculsa.
706 magis id lumen Lach. for magis lumen. magis hoc Flor. 31. maius Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. vulg. magis: et lumen Pont. Nauger.
708 723 Donique. Donicum Lamb. wrongly in both places.
711 iam Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for tam.
720 ut, si forte. ut sit forte Lach. after J. Dousa fil. ‘sine ulla causa et cum orationis sententiaeque detrimento’ says Madvig emend. Liv. p. 123,
727 Babylonica Flor. 31 Pont. Mar. for Babylonisa. Chaldaewn Avanc. Chaldeum AB. Chaldeam A corr. Nicc. Flor. Avanc. abolescere Lamb.
736 possint added by Lach.: see 750: videas by Flor. 31 Camb, Mar. vulg.
737 Veneris. veris Pont. Bentl. Wak. Lach.
738. zephyri. zephyrus Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. vulgo Lach.: but see notes 2.
742 Pulverulenta Ceres Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for Pulverunta Ceres. et added by Mar. Ald. 1 Junt.
747 Reddit Flor. 31 Camb. for Redit. Prodit hiemps, Lach. crepitans Flor. 31 Vat. Mon. Brix. for ereditans. hanc B rightly. ac A. accentibus, algi Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. Mon. Vat. Junt. algu Bergk for algi. algus Lamb. algor Laeh.
750 fieri Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for fleri. florere queant one Vat.
753 solis Lamb. first for possis. posces Mar. Ald. 1 Junt.
761 perire Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for periri. Fleckeisen krit. miscellen p. 55 defends periri on the analogy of fieri, for which Ennius ann. 15 has fiere, and of véniri sometimes used for venire: but the scribe was unconsciously misled by the other infinitive.
768 fulget. julgit Lamb. Lach. Tl —‘164,
776 possent added by Brix. soleant (not valeant) Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. Nauger. Lamb. Gif. Creech Wak.
782 Tollere et Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for Tolleret. crerint committere Orelli eel. poet. Lat., Madvig in Henrichsen de frag. Gott. p. 36, Lach. all three independently for credunt committere. tentaret credere Lamb.
800 maiora Pont. Mar. Avanc. in notes at end of Catullus, Junt. for maiore.
805 primum. passim Lach. without any necessity.
808 terram AB Nicc. rightly. terrae vulg. before Lach.
809 aestus Lach. for aestas. aetas Max. Ald. 1 Junt. vulg.
823 animal Mar. Ald. 1 Junt, for anima. animas A corr. Nicc. all later mss. animans Wak.: but animans is feminine in Lucr.
824 magnis Flor. 31 Camb. Mon. Pont. for magni.
825 Aeriasque Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for Aeriaeque.
833 clarescit Lach. for crescit: he also suggests succrescit, which may be right: or tum crescit. conerescit Ald. 1 Junt. not Pont. or Mar. e added by Mar. Ald. 1 Junt.
836 Quod potuit nequit, ut Ed. for Quod potuit nequeat. pote uti nequeat Lach. tulit ut Bentl.
838 facie Flor. 31 Brix. for facit.
839 interutrasque. | interutraque Lach. Androgynum, interutraque nec utrum, utrimque remotum Lach. most acutely for 4udrogynem inter utras nec utramque utrumque remotum. Androgynem interutra neutrumque utrinque remotam Mar.: utriuque is in Brix.
844 foret usus Lamb. for volet usus, as IV 8831.
853 coniungi possit, habere. coniungi possit avere Lach.: a most awkward phrase: the wish of the female is not important.
854 Mutua qui mutent Bern. for Mutua qui metuent. Mutua quis nectent Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. nectant Nauger. Lamb.. Mutuaque insinuent Lach.
859 tutata Brix. Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for tuta.
863 et fuga B Avanc. wut fuga A Nicc. Mon. Junt. $65 veterino Nonius Pont. Mar. Avane, Junt. veteri non mss.
868 secuta Lamb. in errata to ed. 3 first for secutae.
871 nil Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for ni A, u B.
880 potestas Hinc illine visq. ut non sat par esse potissit Ed. for potestas Hinc illine par vis ut non sat (B, sit A) pars esse potissit: par I assume was written in the margin to take the place of the unmeaning pars, and thus got into the text: so above 117 pars esse mss. for par esse; and II 1017 par for pars. p. H. 3. partis ut si par e. p. Lach. which I hardly understand, Lamb. reads queat for queunt after Mar. Ald. 1 and Junt. joining potestas with what precedes, and ed. 3 has Hine illine par vis ut non sic esse potissit. p. H. i. parilis quis mon superesse potissit Bern.
884 hautquaquam Nicc. for hautquamquam. nam om. A Nicc. and later mss.: hence quia Avanc. quin Mar. Junt. Lamb. etc. haut ita quamquam Flor. 31 Camb.
885 lactantia Flor. 31 Mon. Ver. Ven. for lactantia. quaeret. quaerit Mon. Pont. Ald. 1 Junt. Lamb.
888 puero illi Ed. for puerili. pueris Avanc. Lamb. Lach.; perhaps Lucr. wrote puero li.
889 Occipit Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for Officit.
892 rabidis Heins. in ms. notes, and Bentl. for rapidis: see IV 712.
896 proiciunt Lamb. in notes to ed. 2 and in ed. 3, after Turnebus, for proficiunt.
901 vero added by Ald. 1 Junt. (not Pont. or Mar.) vulg. Denique f. q. Lach. Ardua, Ignea others.
904 ut una Brix. Pont. Avanc. for ut unam. {uncta Mar. Junt.
906 foras Nauger. for feras. ferox Pont. Junt. ferens Mar.
914 ponere B corr. Mar. Junt. for pondere. pandere Avanc.
923 Sed res quaeque Ed. for Sed si quaeque. Sed sic quodque Mar. (sic Pont.). Res sic Lamb. Sed vis Lach.
925 At Lach. for Et; and the change seems necessary.
934 molirier Brix. Junt. for mollerier. mollirier Pont. Mar. as A eorr.
944 dura Vat. 3276 Nauger. for dira: a certain correction. dia Avanc.
947 Clarw’ citat late Forbiger for Claricitati a te. Clarior accitat Flor. 31 2 Vat. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. Lamb. ed. 1 and 2. Claricitat late Lamb. ed. 3 after Sim. Bosius. Clarior invitat Politian in marg. Flor. 29. — Clarigitat late Lach. who sneers at Forbiger: but see notes 2.
948 nota vagi silvestria Lach, for n. vagis s. noctivagi Nauger. (not Junt.) vulg. nocte vagi Bentl.
949 quibus escibant AB Vat. 1706 Reg. (‘Nie. Heinsii’). quibus ‘scibant Lach. first after them. aestibant Nicc. excibant Camb. Pont. exibant Flor. 31. wmori’ Bentl. Lach. for umore.
962 iungebat Nicc. for lugebat. lugebat (iungebat) Ver. Ven.
968 (975) first brought to this place by Nauger. not Avanc. who like Mar. and Junt. places it after 961.
970 subw’ sic silvestria Ed. for subus silvestria: sic could easily fall out in this position. suibus Camb. Ver. Ven. vulg.; but Lucr. uses subus in VI 974 977: Luc. Mueller de re metr. p. 350 defends subus, from Varro Eumen. 22 An colubrae an volvae de Albuci subus Athenis. Lach.deals with this passage in a most arbitrary way: he splits 970 (969) into two verses, supposes the end of one and the beginning of the other to be lost and inserts 968 (975) between them: thus S. p. s. [ardorique leonum] M. s. e. m. p. c. [Inde cavis temere abiecti] s. m.: a more unconvineing note than his I never read, or more sophistical objections to the present text.
971 Nuda dabant Lamb. ed. 3 first for Nudabant which Wak. indignantly restores, making these simple sons of earth unclothe their naked limbs and rival the famed exploit of Prince Vortigern’s grandsire.
976 rosea Flor. 31 Brix. Pont. Mar. for rotea.
984 Eiectique Flor. 31 Camb. etc. for Electique B, Et lectique A Nioc.
985 validique. validive Lach.; but comp. 987 Hospitibus saevis in plur.
989 labentis Muretus Lamb. Lach. for lamentis.
993 vivo Flor. 31 Camb. Mon. etc. for vino.
995 ulcera Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. for vicerat. viscera A corr. Nicc. Ver. Ven.
997 Donique Is. Voss. in ms. notes, Lach. for Denique. Doniquom Heins. in ms. notes. Donec Mar. Junt. Donicum Lamb.
1001 Aigebant Lach. for lidebant. ledebant A corr. Camb. Mon. Ver. Ven. laedebant vulg. lidebant may be from Lucr.: see notes 2.
1002 Hic Lach. for Nec. Sed Lamb. The rest of this verse is quite causelessly altered by Mar. Junt. Lamb.
1003 ponebat Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for potebas. poscebat Flor. 31 Camb.
1006 naucleri ratio cum Ed. for navigii ratio tum. The v. is ejected by Lach. as spurious: the ri of naucleri was absorbed in ratio; and then the corruption was easy.
1008 dabat Flor. 31 Camb. for daeant B, deant A. dedant Nicc. Ver. Ven.
1009 Illi imprudentes Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for Illi prudentes.
1010 nurui nunc dant sollertius ipsi Ed. for nudant sollertius ipsi, the scribe having omitted the similar letters: ipsi is dat.; see notes 2. — nuptis nunc dant sollertiu! sponsi Ed. in smalled. — s«uuc se nudant s. ipsi Lach. which can hardly be right. nunc dant letum sol. ipso Mar. nunc daut aliis sol. ipsi Junt. vulg. and Ed. in ed. 1; but ipsi is then solecistic.
1011 casas Flor. 31 Camb. Mon. Brix. Pont. for cassas. pellis ( pelles) Mon. Brix. Ver. Ven. for pellus. pelvis Flor. 31 Camb.
1012 a verse is lost here of this nature Hospitium, ac lecti socialia iura duobus: see notes2. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. vulg. give Castaque privatae Veneris connubia laeta.
1013 Cognita sunt. Conubium Lach. Coniugium Bern.
1016 ferre Flor. 31 Camb. Pout. Mar. for ferri.
1019 amicitiem & Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. Gif. amicitiain B Mon. Avanc. at end of Catullus, Junt. Lamb, aventes Finitimi inter se. habentes A corr. Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. etc. — Finitim A Nicc. Ver. Ven.: hence though Mar. Junt. rightly read aventes, yet Nauger. Lamb. Creech Wak. vulg. before Lach. keep the absurd Aabentes. Finitima Brix. Pont. Ald. 1 Nauger. Lamb. vulg. but Finitimi B Camb. Mar. rightly. violari Lach. for violare.
1023 omnis (omneis) Mar. Junt. for omni: a certain correction, yet strange to say Nauger. Lamb. etc. have adopted the omnium of one Vat, and Ald. 1
1025 caste Flor. 31 for casti. servabant casti Mar. Junt. Lamb. vulg. contrary to usage of Lucr.
1032 monstrent Mar. or Mon. and Junt. for monstret. Flor. 30 has the mark of n over the e, but whether from the hand of Nicc. I could not tell.
1033 vim Brix. (?) Ver. Ven. Avanc. forvis. vi..sua Flor. 31 Mar. Junt. vis…suas Luc. Mueller de re metr. p. 382, perhaps rightly: comp. II 586 III 265. quod i.e. quoad AB. quam Avanc. Lamb. in all 3 eds. Creech etc.: Lamb. says in his notes that he had once thought of quoad, but much preferred quam.
1035 infestus Flor. 31 Mar. Junt. Nauger. Wak. Lach. for infessus. infensus Mon. Pont, Avanc. Lamb.: but infestus is a Lucretian word, infensus not
1038 Vix etiam cum Mar. Junt. for Viz tiam cum B, Viz iam cum A Nicc. etc. — Vix quoque iam cum Flor. 31. Vix iam etiam cum Avanc. Viz iam cum ipsis Pont. Nauger. Lamb. ed. 1 and 2; Viz dum etiam cum ed. 3.
1039 porro Ald. 1 Junt. for proporro.
1040 pinnis B, pennis A Nonius Nicc. (VI 884 pinnarum A, pennarum B).
1048 Utilitatis et Mar. Avanc. Junt. for Utilitas et. Ald. 1 has the misprint Utilitatis etiam, but Avanc. corrects it at end of his Catullus. Lach. takes no notice of this and similar corrections, though his own Catullus shews that he knew the edition of Avanc.
1049 Avanc. followed by Lamb. Lach. etc. but not by Junt. or Nauger. has corrupted the sense by reading Quid vellet, facere ut scirent animoque viderent: on comparing what precedes and follows, it is manifest that the construction must be the same as 183 Quid vellent facere ut scirent: first he, like the gods there, had to know what he wanted himself; then item 1050 to make others to know. sciret is like fulgét in II 27.
1053 Quid sit opus facto facilest Lach. for facile si. faciles neque enim Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. Lamb. ed. 1 and 2; but ed. 3 Quid facto esset opus; neque enim faciles: a violent change; but his knowledge of Latin taught him that in the old reading sit and the position of neque enim were quite indefensible.
1058 varia res Bentl. for varias res: the attraction of res has caused the error: 1090 alia re mss. for alia res.
1062 licet id rebus Lach. after Gif. in note for licet in rebus. id licet e rebus Lamb.
1063 magna. inmane Lach. without cause.
1064 fremunt Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for premunt. tremunt Nonius.
1065 alio Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. etc. for alia. rabie restricta Lach. for rabie stricta. rabies districta Flor. 31 Camb. 2 Vat. Mar. rabie districta Pont. Lamb. rabie distracta 2 Vat. Nauger. minantur Pont. Nauger. for minatur.
1067 Et Lach. for 4t which even Lamb. retains.
1068 iactant Nauger. for lactant. petentes Flor. 31 Mon. Ver. Ven. etc. for potentes. patente Is. Voss. in ms., notes.
1069 teneros imitantur. veros imitantur Faber in notes. tencros minitantur Lach.: but they refine too much I think, nor do I see any real difference in sense between imitantur and minitantur.
1071 deserti baubantur Nonius Nicc. for desertibus aubantur, i.e. deserti b. aubantur, AB: so VI 1241 Poenibus at: Aen. x1 572 Nutribus at P.
1076 patulis ubi naribus Laeh. for patulis sub naribus: this slight change I adopt, but with hesitation for other reasons and also on account of the apparent imitation of Virgil georg. I 85 Collectumque fremens volvit sub naribus ignem: ‘turpe et obscenum loquendi genus’ really comes to nothing: Aen. x1 736 At non in Venerem segnes nocturnaque bella; georg. III 98 siquando ad proelia ventum est, and the like are quite as coarse.
1080 salso. salsis Lamb. tacitly.
1082 praedaeque Avanc. rightly for praedataque. praedaque A corr, Nicc. vulg.
1084 ut Nauger. for et. Ald.1 Junt. omit the word; and also Mar., but he changes ubi of next v. to uti,
1088 Muta Flor. 31 Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for Multa.
1090 res Nicc. for re: comp. n. to 1058.
1094 inlita Lach. for insita. incita Mar. Junt. vulg.
1095 vapore Lach. for vaporis. vapores vulg. vare Nonius.
1099 Et micat Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for Emicat which Lamb. in errata to ed. 3 wrongly restores.
1102 coquere. quoq; uere A, coq. uere B, quoquere Nicc. and Lach.
1105 hi victum Nauger. for invictum. et victum Mar. Ald. 1 Junt.
1106 rebu’ benigni Lach. for rebus et igni.
1110 Et pecus atque agros Lach. for Et pecudes atque agros: comp. 1291 where for pecus B has pecudes. Et pecudes et agros Flor. 31 Camb. Pont. Mar. vulg. divisere atque dedere Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for diviseratque debere. divisim ut quisquis haberet Camb.
1112 viresque vigentes Faber in notes for viresque vigebant. viresque vigorque Lach.: vigebant he says has come from 1107: clearly vires vigebant could only mean ‘their strength was then in its vigour’: a meaning here quite out of place.
1116 creti Flor. 31 Camb. Brix. Ver. Ven. Mar. for certi.
1120 is much corrupted by Lamb.
1124 Certantes iter Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for Certantesque inter: iter Flor. 31 Brix. Pont. before them.
1127 1128 (1131 1132) I have brought to this place: Lach. puts them after 1135.
1131 sine Flor. 31 Camb, 3 Vat. Mar. for side.
1141 redibat Flor. 31 Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for recidat.
1145 vi colere Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. for vicere A, vigere B, vincere Nicc.: comp. 1150.
1151 Inde. Unde Mar. Junt. Lamb. etc. Gif. attributes inde to Marullus, from a confusion prob. between the Inde which Ven. rightly has, and Marullus’ change to Unde.
1152 vis Camb. Brix. Mar. for ius. circumretitae nimis Pont. and so in dark ink on an erasure in Mon.; but enim vis is written over in a paler ink, like that most used: another indication that Pontanus may have had possession of the ms. before Marullus.
1160 mala added by Lach. diu Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. vulg.
1177 Et tamen omnino. Et manet omnino Lamb. most perversely.
1178 ulla vi Brix. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for illa vi. illa (ulla) Ver. Ven.
1190 severa. serena Candidus at end of Junt. Lach. which Lamb. also prefers: the change of course is very slight; but severa is to my taste the more poetical.
1198 ullast velatum. — ulla velatumst mss, and eds. before Mar. and Ald. 1.
1203 pacata Junt. (not Pont. or Mar.) for placata: a necessary correction which Nauger. rejects, but Lamb. ed. 2 and 3 properly adopts.
1207 in pectora. n pectore Ald. 1 Junt. followed by Nauger. Lamb. Creech etc. most absurdly.
1214 Solliciti Bentl. for Et taciti: he refers to I 343 and VI 1038. Et tanti one Vat. Ald. 1 Lamb.
1220 Fulminis Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. first for Fulmini. Fulmine Nicc. Fulmine terribili Flor. 31,
1224 Nequid Lach. for Nequod: a necessary change, if it is joined with admissum.
1225 adultum Lach. for adauctum. adactum Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. Lamb. etc.
1226 Summa F or. 31 Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for Summe.
1229 adit ac prece Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. for adita prece.
1230 enclosed by Lach. in [ ].
1237 dubiaeque. dubiaeve Bentl.: but see notes 2.
1241 superest aes atque aurum Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for superest aeque aurum.
1244 caeli fulmine misso BA eorr. Nicc. all later mss, and eds.: caelo A p. m. alone. caeli is quite right: see 1489. caelo Lach. who says ‘neque dixit alibi Lueretius fulmen caeli, sed plagam caeli supra 1095’: but why his once using plaga caeli, should prevent him from twice using fulmen caeli, my mind cannot comprehend.
1252 Quidquid. Quicquid AB; and so the lex Rubria 26 and the ancient and sole ms. of Livy x1v 32 9: Lucr. may therefore have written quicquid here, though elsewhere his mss. have quidquid for the relative; quicquid in the sense of quicque, rightly according to the rule explained in notes 2 to I 22 quicquam.
1253 altis A Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. Mon. Brix. Ver. Ven. Junt. altas BA corr. Avanc. Lamb.
1254 Ab Junt. first for 4, rightly: not Pont. or Mar.
1258 in terra splendere Lach. first for in terras. in terris Lamb.
1259 capti Flor. 31 Ver. Ven. Mar. for capiti.
1266 darent, silvasque ut caedere possent Lach. for parent silvasque et cedere possint. [But perhaps the mss, areright: compare Plaut. Amph. 192 praemisit ut nuntiem; and see Ussing there.]
1267 dolare et levia radere Mar. Junt. (Ald. 1 has ac for et) for dolaret levare ac radere; which seems the simplest change. domo, levare ac radere Lach. laevare dolare et radere Lamb. — Lach. also suggests dolare secare ac or dolare aequare ac.
1272 poterat Lamb. and Lach. for poterant: this I have received with some hesitation.
1273 Tum Lach. for Nam. aes added by Flor. 31 Camb. Pont. Mar.
1278 e added by Brix. Pont. Mar.
1285 flamma atque B corr. Flor. 31 Camb. 4 Vat. for Aammatque ignes. flammae atque Mar. Nauger. Lamb. etc.
1294 obprobrium. obscenum all the mss. of Maerob. sat. VI 1 63, collated by Ianus: a curious variation, Lach. who depended on an old edition of Macrobius, is mistaken in supposing that obscenum is not the ms. reading.
1297 armatum. reppertum Lamb. etc. and 1301 inventum Mar. Junt. Lamb. etc. for armatum: both needless changes.
1300 biiugos Faber for biiugo: biiugo makes the construction extremely harsh, and, as Faber says, has come from 1299.
1302 taetras (tetras) Lach. for tetros: rightly, see 1339.
1310 partim, Parthi Camb. 2 Vat.: a reading adopted by Lamb. Creech Wak. vulg. before Lach.
1311 doctoribus, ductoribus Ver. Ven. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. Nauger. Lamb. etc.
1315 Lach. rejects as spurious; and Ed. in ed. 1.
1319 petebant Vat. 610 Urbin. Mon. Junt. for patebant.
1320 deripiebant A Lach. diripiebant B Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. Mon. all before Lach.
1323 suos. sues Ver. Ven. Avanc. Lamb. etc.
1325 fronte Lach. for mente which has no meaning. ad terramque minanti mente Mar. Lamb. Gif. Creech etc. and this Candidus doubtless meant to read.
1327 1328 Mon. Junt. Lach. and Ed. in small ed. omit the second; Lamb. ed. 1 obelises the first, ed. 2 and 3 both: but see notes 2.
1330 dentis adactus Mar. Junt. for dentis adauctus B, dentibus adauctus A Nicc, Camb, — dentibus ictus Politian in marg. Flor. 29.
1340 facta. fata B corr. Lach.: but see notes 2.
1341—1346 Lach. justly ejects the last three of these verses as the work of an interpolator; but it is no less certain that the first three are likewise spurious; Si fuit ut facerent is obviously a comment on Sed facere id non tam cet. Lach. to make sense and grammar is compelled to read Sic fuit with Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. Lamb. for Si fuit, and to transpose 1342 and 1343: see Camb. Journ. of phil. 1v p. 288: 1845—528.
1351 tela paratur. tela parantur Lamb. perversely.
1388 1389=1454 1455, and are here quite out of place.
1391 tum haec sunt omnia ‘ut quidam legunt’ says Lamb. for tum sunt omnia: comp. 1404, tum sunt carmina Lach. otia Faber.
1397 ioca Flor. 31 Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for loca.
1400 monebat Flor. 31 Mar, Junt. for movebat.
1405 solacia somni Lamb. Lach. for solacia somno. :secutus sum codicem Vaticanum’ says Lamb. All the mss. at present in the Vatican have, I believe, somno: but again and again Lamb. speaks in the same vague way of Vatican and other mss.
1409 servare recens Ed. for servare genus: servare first absorbed the re, then cens became genus. sonis Lach. Certainly genus is quite unmeaning. numeris Nicc. as well as Flor. 31 Ver. Ven. Avanc. in Ald. 1; but at end of his Catullus he bids us read numerum.
1410 Maiorem Flor. 31 Camb. for Maiore. dulcedini’ Lamb. rightly for dulcedine.
1418 ferinae Junt. (not Pont. or Mar.) for ferina. vestis contemta ferinast Lamb. ed. 2 and 8.
1419 tunc Brix. Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for nunc.
1431 in added by Flor. 31 Camb. Mon. Pont. Ald. 1 Junt.
1436 magnum versatile, magnum ac versatile Ed. in small ed.; and ac may have fallen out after m: et is added by Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. Lamb. vulg. versatili? Lach.
1442 Iam Lach. for Tum. propter odores all mss. whieh Wak. absurdly defends. puppibus (puppib.) et res Lach. puppibusis unquestionably right; but res appears strange without any epithet; I have written therefore puppibus; urbes. Tum mare velivolum florebat navibu’ pandis Junt. (not Pont. or Mar.) Lamb. etc. probably after Servius.
1449 et added by Flor. 31 Camb.
1451 polire Flor. 31 Vat. 640 Urbin. and 1954 Othob. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. Lamb. Lach. for polito.
1455 erigit. eruit Junt. (not Pont. or Mar.) Lamb. etc. wrongly.
1456 clarescere et ordine debet Ed. for clarescere corde videbant: one e was &absorbed by the other; then tordine debet passed into corde videbant. clarescere conveniebat Lach. who joins Artibus with venere,
Book VI
Section titled “Book VI”1 frugiparos AB. frugiferos A corr. Nicc. and later mss. and eds. before Wak.
7 extincti Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for extincta.
10 mortalibus Nicc. for acortalibus.
11 proquam posset Lach. for proquam possent: a simple and certain correction of a much-vexed passage. per quae possent Mar. Avanc. Madvig, deceived by this, conjectured in Henrichsen de frag. Gott. per quae possent vita c. tuta. Lamb. and Creech obelise the verse.
13 excellere Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for ezcolere A Nicc., excollere B. extollere Flor. 31 Camb. Pont.
14 corda Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for cordi.
15 querellis of mss. has of course come from 16 and has supplanted the words of Lucr. who wrote sine ulla Pausa atque. Lach. retains querellis here and in 16 reads Passimque…periclis. cogei Lach., cogi Lamb., rightly for coget: a common corruption in our mss. Mar. Avanc. Junt. corrupt the passage greatly. Lamb. followed by Gif. Creech, etc. contraets the two verses into one, thus Atque animum infestis cogi servire querelis: servire also Ver. Ven. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. Causam quae Avanc. Nauger. for Pausa atque.
17 vas Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for fas.
25 cuppedinis A rightly, as V 45; and so Marullus in marg. of cod. Victor. properly corrects: Lactantius inst. VII 27 has torpedinis, from whom Mar. probably got his first notion mentioned by Gifanius: see n. to III 991: unless he rather when young derived it from his master Pontanus who expressly notes ‘torpedinis est apud Lactantium ‘.
27 tramite parvo. tramite prono Lamb. limite prono Junt. apparently after Lactantius inst. VII 27. Lach. rightly joins tramite varvo with what follows.
28 recto A corr. Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. Mon. Lactant. for recta.
30 fieret lac. Susius in Tonson, Lach. for fuerit. flueret Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. vulg. maturali. maturae vi Lamb. naturali viro atque Mar. Ald. 1 Junt.
32 Et quibus Flor. 31 Camb, Pont. Mar. for E quibus.
34 Volvere Ver. Ven. Max. for Volnere,, — Aa et added by Flor. 31 Camb. Brix. Mar.
46 ressolui Goebel obs. Lucr. p. 18 for dissolui: comp. V 773 Qua fieri quicquid posset ratione resolvi: a friend suggests that IV 500 dissolvere causam may support dissolui here: but see notes 2. fiunt, fateare necessest Pleraque dissolui Lach. most unsuitably, as if only pleraque, not omnia, were to be dissolved. fiunt possuntque, m. P. dissolui Bern. to which the same objection applies. Lamb. seeing this difficulty, in ed. 2 and 3 gives fiunt fientque, necesse Esse ea dissolui.
47—49 an exceedingly corrupt passage; yet I fancy that I have amended it without much violence: in 47 I have changed nothing; after it there is manifestly a hiatus of several verses, the general sense of which I have attempted to give in my translation. The ms. reading of 48 and 49 is as follows, Ventorum exirtant placentur omnia rursum Que fuerint sint placato conversa favore: with exirtant for ex ira ut, comp. IV 820 virtuti for viruti. ommnia for omina is an almost unfailing blunder of mss. furore is from Lamb. ed. 2 and 3, and Auratus for favore. So Sen. Octav. 800 and 806 mss. have furore and furor for favore and favor. ‘The older emendations in Ald. 1 Junt. Lamb. etc. are so devoid of all probability that I will not cite them: Lamb. indeed believes the lines not to be Lucretius’; nor is Lachmann’s text much happier: institui conscendere currum Ventosum et certant plangentia flamina rursum, Quae fuerint, sine, placato conversa furore: then at 50 he begins a new paragraph, and 52 for Et faciunt gives Haec faciunt, though Lactantius twice over has the ms. reading. Bern.supposesalacuna both before and after 48 which he thus leaves, Ventorum existant, placentur omnia rursum:
52 Mar. Junt. Lamb. etc. for Et faciunt have Ejficiunt.
56 57—90 91=1153 154: here in the 6th book Lach. rejects them in the first, retains them in the second place: to me it is manifest that in both places they come from the annotator who thought they were in point and consequently jotted them down in the margin in his usual fashion.
68 longeque Nicc. for longique. remittisFlor. 31 Camb. Brix. for remitti.
71 oberunt Wak. for oderuut. aderunt Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. Lamb. etc.
72 ez ira Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for exire.
73 quietos Mar. Junt. for quietus.
74 fluctus Flor. 31 Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for fletus.
76 feruntur Brix. Ald. 1 Junt. (not Pont. or Mar.) for fuerunt. ferunt Ver. Ven.
82 suntornanda. sunt tornanda Flor. 31 Politian in marg. Flor. 29.
83 est ratio caeli (caelis Brix.) speciesque tcnenda Brix. Avanc. Lamb. ed. 1 and 2 for est ratio caelisque tenenda: the scribe omitted specie because of the following squete. est ratio fulgendi visque tonandi Lach. which seems to me most improbable. est ratio superum caelique Flor. 31 Camb. 2 Vat. Lamb. ed. 3.
90 91=56 57=I 153 154: see above. Lach. admits them here.
92 ad candida calcis Lamb. and Turnebus for ac candida callis: a certain emendation.
102 nubes Flor. 31 Pont. Mar. Ald, 1Junt.for. mire Nicc. Brix. Ver. Ven.
103 lapides Flor. 31 Ver. Ven. for pepides. tigna Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. Junt. for iigna. wugna Nicc. ligna Ver. Ven. Avanc.
105 Nam cadere aut bruto Flor. 31 Camb. all Vat. Brix. Ver. Ven. Mar. Junt. for Nam cadere avi B, Nam candere aut A corr. (says Lach. but ? p. m. also) Nicc. aut is anquestionably right: comp. 1198 avi mss. for aut. Nam cadere abrupto Avanc. Nam aut cadere abrupto Lamb. ab bruto Lach.
110 malos Flor. 31 Max. Junt. for matos. muros Brix. Avanc. matos (muros) Ver. Ven.
112 sonitus added by Flor. 31 Camb. etc.
115 planguntque Pont. Mar. Junt. for planguentque.
116 ut added by Flor. 31 Vat. 610 Urbin. and 1136 Othob. Pius.
118 corpora tractim Gronov. Faber for corpore tractim. ‘f. corpora tactu’ Heins. in ms. notes. corpore tractum Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. all Vat, etc. corpori? tractum Mar. Junt.
120 exierunt Vat. 1706 Reg. for exierum: also Heins. in ms. notes has ‘exierunt s’ i.e. the ms, of Modius who must therefore have read in it exierunt, as the ed. Paris. 1565 has exierit, as well as Lamb. ed. 1 and 3. Is. Voss. too and Creech prefer exierunt. exierit Flor. 31 Camb. 3 Vat. Ald. 1 Junt. Lamb. ezierint Brix. Ver. Ven. Mar.; but exierit Mar. ap. Victor. in ed. Ven.
124 concollecta AB. conlecta Nicc. Brix. collecta A corr. Camb. 198 conminuit, commovit A corr, Flor. 31 Camb. Mon. Brix. Ver. Ven. vulg. before Lach.
129 scissa Bern. for missa. fissa Lach.: it is clearly the mubes, not the procella, which is here spoken of; though all editors before Lach. retain missa, which Isidore too orig. XIII 8 must have read: the corruption therefore must be old.
131 torvum Ed. for parvum. | magnum Is. Voss. in ms. notes and Wak. pariter Mar. Junt. Lamb. etc. Saepe det haut parvum Lach. Noenu ita det p. Bern.: but see notes 2.
132 and 136 perflant A corr. Nicc. for perfiant.
141 Arbusta evolvens A corr. Flor. 31 Pont. Mar. for Arbusta volvens. — Arbuste volvens Nicc. Camb.
144 aestus Flor. 31 Camb. etc. for aest. aestu A corr. Nicc. Mon. Ver. Ven. vulg.
147 ut added by Lamb. trucidet Junt. not Pont. or Mar. for trucidat. Lach. on the contrary in 115 for Fit reads Id.
149 propere Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for propter.
151 repente Flor. 31 Brix. Pont. for recente.
154 res ulla Macrob. sat. VI 4 5 for res uita. res ulla uita Ver. Ven. resina Flor. 31 Camb.
158 in artum. in arto Lach.: but somewhat involved constructions are by no means avoided by Lucr.: comp. 176 and III 843.
165 Fulgere Nicc. B corr. for F’ugere.
168 Ancipiti Flor. 31 Mon. Brix. for Ungipiti. videas Mar. Junt, for videat.
172 E sinili A Nicc. Flor. 31 (Lach. wrongly assigns to it Et) 2 Vat. Brix. Mar. Junt. Lamb. Et simili B Camb. Mon. 3 Vat. Ver. Ven. Avanc.
179 liquescit Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for quiescit: a certain correction. calescit Lach. utterly destroying the force of the passage.
180 perscidit Flor. 31 Camb. Mon. Brix. for perscindit.
183 adficit Bentl. for adlicit. adtigit Lamb. conj adcidit Heins. in ms. notes.
184 hunina B. limina A Nicc. Flor. 31 three Vat.
185 alte Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for aiti.
187 188 wrongly placed by Lach. after 193 on account of the neuters: see 759 I 352 IV 934.
187 Ne. Nec Mon. Lach.
188 sint Mar. Junt. for sit. extructa Ald. 1 Junt. for extricta.
191 cumulata B corr. Brix. Ver. Ven. Mar. for culata. procul alta Flor. 31 Camb.
192 urguere A Nicc. urgere B. superne Bentl. for superna.
205 color Serv. ad ecl. VI 33, Mar. Avanc. Nauger. calor AB Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. Junt. mss. of Macrob. sat. VI 5 4: yet color must be right: the mss. of Macrobius sometimes agree strangely with those of Lucr. in corruptions.
208 Flammeus est Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. for Flammeusq. splendidus ollis Flor. 31 Mar. Camb. corr. but p. m., Mar. for splendidusolis.
209 Quin etiam Lach. for Quippe enim. Quippe etenim vulg.
210 rubeant Flor. 31 Camb. Brix. Pont. Mar. for iubeant.
213 fulgere. fulgore Avanc. Lach. in defiance of Epicurus and Lueretius assigning colour to atoms.
216 ingratis Pius in notes for ingratius,
218 sonitu Vat. 1954 Othob. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for sonis. sonitis Flor. 31 Camb. one Vat. atque sonis Pont.
219 quali added by Lamb. quod sic Flor. 31 Camb.
220 ictus et Flor. 31 Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. vulg. for ictu et.. ictu loca Lach.
221 auras Mon. (or Mar.) Junt. for auris.
223 saepe Is. Voss. in ms. notes for se. per se Flor. 31 vulg.
226 mobilibusque Ald. 1 Junt. (not Pont. or Mar.) for montibusque.
228 229 Lach. makes one verse out of these two by omitting per s. d. C.utacv. tr.
231 Curatitem. Curatutei Lach. Curat item ut Lamb.: but surely there is sufficient authority for omitting ut after curat.
234 et insinuatus Lach. for ut insinuatus. ut insinuatur Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb, vulg.: but ut for ubi is not Lucretian.
237 pellens Ed. for tellens. tollens A corr. Nicc. pollens Lamb. vulg. Lach. cellens Wak.
241 tigna Lamb. first (not Flor. 31) for igna. ligna Nicc. later mss. and eds. before Lamb.
242 demoliri Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for commoliri: prepositions seem often to be confounded in our mss. cremare Ed. for ciere which has no meaning: the last letters, which were on the outside margin of this the 259th page of the archetype, were lost. lamenta Lach. for monimenta: a violent change which destroys the whole force of the passage.
245 te added by Flor. 31 Camb. Pont. Mar.
246 gignier Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for gigni. nunc gigni Flor. 31 Camb. crassis Nicc. for classis.
257 demissum flumen Junt. for dimissum fulmen. demissum fulmen Mar. Avanc. which is repeated as a correction at the end of his Catullus and must be a misprint for Jiumen,
258 effertus Lach. for et fertus. et fertur vulg.
269 plena Flor. 31 Camb. Mon. etc. for plana.
272 habere Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for haecdere. hac de re Nicc.
281 venti vis et gravis ignis Bentl. for gravis venti vis igni. gravida, aut vis ignis et acer Lach. vis venti vel gravis ignis Mar. Junt. Lamb. etc.
286 videatur Ed. for videantur: the scribe has adapted the verb to templa: see I 1108: in 467 videatur mss. for videantur. Lach.reads Exprimere for Opprimere, Bern. Occidere. — 290 concussu B corr. Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for concussus.
291 uti Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for ut. ita ut Flor. 31 Camb.
292 revocari Lach. for revocare.
296 calidam Bern. rightly for valida. gravidam Bentl. Lach. jfulmine Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for culmine.
298 patrio Flor. 31 Camb. 3 Vat. etc. for spatio. gquawm spatio (quem patrio) Ver. Ven. Latio B corr., perhaps rightly. quem. quod Camb. 2 Vat. Mar. Junt. Lamb.
302 Dum venit, amittens. ‘Immo Cum venit amittens: alioquin oratio non constat’ Lach.
308 concepit Flor. 31 Camb. Mon. Ver. Ven. for concipit.
309 ipsius Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for ipsis.
315 illi Lach. for ille. illa Flor. 31 vulg.
320 ea quae Lach. first for ex quae. ex quo vulg. without sense. tanta vi missa Flor. 31 Camb. 2 Vat. Pont. for tantaumissa. tanta immissa Nicc. Ver. tanta vi immissa Mar. Ald. 1 Junt.
321 cursu si Flor. 31 Camb. for cursus. — 323 Mobilitas A corr. Camb. etc. for Nobilitas.
324 Et Mar. Nauger. for At. Ac Junt. Wak. percurrunt Lach. for percunt. pergunt A corr.Nicc. iam pergunt Flor. 31 Camb. 2 Vat. perguntsic Mar. Junt. Lamb.
335 Deinde, quod. Adde quod Lach. which seems to me much weaker than the ms. reading.
336 plagast Lach. for plaga si. plaga sit Flor. 31 Camb. all before Lach.
347 incendunt B rightly. incedunt A Nicc. intendunt Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. Lamb. etc.
349 transvolat Nauger. vulg. for transviat. trameat Gif.
350 perfringit Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. vulg. for perfrigit B, perfigit A, perfregit A corr. all later mss. Ver. Ven.: comp. 138 perfringens A corr. vulg. perfingens A, perfrigens B. Lach. keeps perfigit, which can hardly be right.
357 apta Turnebus Bentl. Wak. Lach. for alta.
359 se veris Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. etc. for seris. seris (veris) Ver. Ven.
360 calore Mar. ap. Victor. in ed. Ven. Ald. 1 Junt. for calores.
362 Interutrasque. Interutraque Lach.
364 et added by Mar. Junt. frigidus aestum Nicc. to Avanc. ad aestum Nonius.
365 nubi Lach. for nobis which has no sense,
366 sit added by Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. sic Flor. 31 Camb.
368 et, rigoris Mar. Junt. vulg. for est, ligoris. Lach. keeps est, and for id reads ut.
370 res inter se Flor. 31 Camb. 8 Vat. for inter se. inter se res Ver. Ven. Mar. vulg. Lach. wrongly, as inter se is metrically one word.
374 freta added by Lach. most acutely. Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. vulg. add bella after haec.
375 eo si B corr. Lamb. for eos. st in eo sic Camb. Mar. si in eo tum Avanc. 5i in eo iam Pont. Junt.
376 cietur turbida B corr. Flor. 31 Camb. Brix. for cie turbida.
382 mentis Flor. 31 Camb. 2 Vat. Mar. for menti.
384 hinc Mar. Lach. for hic, as in 88.
389 quo quoiquest. quo cuique est Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. etc. for quo inquest. voluptas Junt. first (not Flor. 31 or Mar.) for voluntas.
401 Iuppiter in terras Nicc. B corr. for Iuppiterras: but both B and Nicc. spell Jupiter.
402 ipse in eas tum Lamb. first for ipse in aestum. ipsus in aestum Flor. 31 Camb. 3 Vat. Mar. Wak.
406 Praeterea. Propterea A Nicc, st vult Avanc. Candidus at end of Junt. Nauger. for si vivit B, si iuvit A, senuit Nicc. sevi ut Flor. 31 Camb. saevi ut Mar. Junt,
421 loca B corr. Flor. 31 Camb. Mon. Ver. Ven. for ioca. que eius Lach. for que plus. que huius Lamb.
424 Grai Flor. 31 Camb. Brix. for Grali. Graii B corr. Mar. Graiei Lach.: Lucretius wrote either Graiei or Grai, not Graii,
426 tamquam Flor. 31 Camb. Ver. Ven. Mar. for tam cum.
428 incita Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. etc. for lacita.
430 veniant Lach. for veniunt: Flor. 31 Mar. Junt. Lamb. vulg. keep veniunt, and 429 read sunt.
440 detrusit Lamb. first for detruit. detrudit A corr. Nicc.
447 procellae Flor. 31 Vat. 640 Urbin. Vat. 1136 Othob. Mar. for procellat which Wak. absurdly retains.
449 Officere Flor. 31 Camb. Mon. for Officerct.
452 supero Lach. for super. supera Lamb. conj. coiere Flor. 31 Camb. Brix. Mar. for coire.
453 moris Lach. for modis: a certain correction.
454 comprensa Mar. Lamb. for compressa.
456 haec Tiach. for ea: ea might possibly be defended by 188, and 215 eas: see notes 2 there: but the harshness would be very great.
460 quoque. quaeque Camb. 9 Vat. Ald. 1 Mar. Juut. Lamb. etc. wrongly.
461 furvae Bentl. Lach. for Julvae. nubis Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for nubes.
465 turba maiore Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for turbammor. turba minore Flor. 31 Camb.
466 Et condensa queant apparere Lach. most acutely for Et comlensatque arta parere. Et condensa atque arta Flor. 31, 3 Vat. Pont. Mar. Avanc. at end of Catullus.
467 videantur Flor. 31 Camb. Vat. 640 Urbin. 1136 Othob. Lamb. for videatur.
468 loca Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. Junt. for lo. so Nicc. se Brix. Ver. Ven. Ald. 1.
469 et sensus Avanc. for et sensum: Mar. Junt. Nauger. have ad sensum.
473 Quo magis Mon. Ald. 1 Junt. for Quod magis.
474 consurgere momine Flor. 31 Camb. Vat. 1136 and 1954 Othob. Mar. for consurgerem homine.
475 consanguineast Is. Voss. in ms. notes for consanguiuea se. cum sanguine ob eumoribus Nicc. cum sanguine abest Flor. 31 Camb. 4 Vat. Lamb. ollis Lach. for omnis. Avanc. at end of Catullus says ‘non percipio illum mancum versum Nam ratio cum vulg. illa Flor. 31 Camb. Vat. 640 Urbin. Mar. for illi A, ille B.
488 per added by Pont. Mar. Junt.
490 Montibw tam magnis Ed. for Tam magnis montis: Tam magnis montib. was the first corruption: see 189 and :V 140. Tam magnis nimbis Lach. Tam magnae molis Bern. Tam magnos montis Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. vulg.
491 Coperiunt Lach. rightly for Coperiant. [I now think it probable that Lucr. wrote coperiant as given by the mss: compare Cic. Laelius 29 quid mirum est si animi hominum moveantur? see Mueller ap. Seyffert p. 206: so here Lucr. seems to realise a special case before his eyes.]
492 caulas Mar. Ald, 1 Junt. for cavias.
496 demissus Flor. 31 Mon. Lamb. for dimissus.
498 vincam Flor. 31 Camb. Mon. Ver, Ven. for vineam.
503 Concipiunt Brix. Pont. Mar. for Concidiunt.
509 umorem Ed. for vi venti which as Creech has seen comes from the vis venti of 510: he proposes inmibres tum: what Lucr. wrote must be quite uncertain. wumentia Lach. after a conj. of Wak.
511 turba maiore Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for turbam more: the same error as in 465. minore Flor. 31 Camb. 3 Vat.
512 Urget de supero Lach. for Urgete supero. Urget et e supero A corr. Nicc. vulg.
515 stillantque B corr. Lamb. fcr stillaute.
516 Cera Flor. 31 Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt.for Tela. Teda B corr.
518 vi. aquis Lach. thereby ruining the sense.
519 4tque tenere Lach. for At retineret. At remanere Bern.
520 cientur Lach. from a conj. of Wak., for Jientur. fluentur Flor. 31 Camb. Wak. fuerunt Mar. Ald. 1 Junt.
523 umorem. humorem AB: often as this and cognate words occur, this is the only instance where B has the aspirate: A has it in three other places: r: 1114 Umor ad humorem A. redhalat Is. Voss. in ms. notes for redralat: he also proposes relatrat ‘i.e. reposcit’. rehalat A corr. vulg.
524 inter Nicc. for inte B, ime A.
527 sorsum…sorsumque Koch in Rhein. mus. n. f. vir p. 640 for sursum…sursumque. cursu…cursuque Lach.
531 euntis B corr. Pont. Avanc. for avintis. aventis Acorr. aquantis Flor. 31 Mar, Junt.
533 fiant Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for fluant.
536 terram Flor. 31 Camb. etc. for terras.
537 supera Avanc. for super. supra est Mar. Junt. supera’st Lamb. etc. wventosis Wak. for ventis, ‘egregie’ says Lach. justly.
541 summersaque saxa Flor. 31 Camb. 3 Vat. Mar. vulg. for summersosca. ‘summerso capte i.e. capite. sic Enn. Capitibus nutantes pinus? Is. Voss. in ms. notes.
542 similem Junt. first for simile. esse sui Ald. 1 Junt. for esse vi. simile esse et par Mar.
548 plaustri Lach. for plaustris.
550 exultant, ut scrupus cumque viai Ed, for exultantes dupuis cumque vim: see notes 2: Lach. rightly saw that vim meant viai: so 465 and 511 the mss. have mmore for maiore; but the rest of his reading et ubi lapi’ cumque seems to me to pervert the meaning, as Lucr. is giving two distinct instances of great results from small causes; and it would be a really monstrous exaggeration to say that houses shake in the way a carriage does, when the wheels are struck up by a stone on the road. ubi currus cumque equum vi Flor. 31 Camb. and 3 Vat.: but Camb. in text and Vat. 1136 Othob.in marg. have also the ms.reading. ubi currus cunque equitum vi Mar. Junt. Lamb. ed. 1. wbi currus fortis equum vis ed. 2 and 3, the fortis equum vis being from Avanc. aedes,ubi cumque equitum vis Wak. sola Pisacumque flumen Is. Voss. in ms. notes: he adds cum after Ferratos.
552 in magnas aqiiae. magnas in aquae Lamb. vulg. before Lach.
554 vacillans B corr. Avanc. for vacillas.
555 inter dum Lach. for inter. in terra Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. vulg. perhaps rightly.
563 Inclinata tument Ed. with Vat. 3276 for Inclinata minent: the tu was absorbed by the preceding ta and then ment passed iuto minent: the Verona palimpsest of Lucan V 160 has consultamultu for consulta tumultu: comp. 1195 tenta mebat of mss. for tenta tumebat, and V 1409 servare genus for servare recens. Inclinata meant Laeh. abeunt Bern. minant Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt.: see Prisc. inst. vir1 20: I wrongly read minantur in small ed. micant Pius in text. Lamb. retains minent. At the end of this verse A and Nicc. have a. a. q. q. B has aqueg. which Bern. praef. p. 111 thinks a mere repetition of the end of 562, A introducing a further corruption: but Nicc. proves that the archetype agreed with A, not B.
568 venti, vis nulla Mar. Wak. for ventis nulla.
574 in pondere A Nicc. vulg. rightly. n pondera B Turneb. Lach. The passages I quote in notes 2 will prove that Turneb. and Lach. are quite mistaken in supposing that the sing. cannot be used in the same sense as the plur.
582 que added by Flor. 31 Camb. Pont. etc.
585 Syria. Tyria Lamb. etc. without cause.
588 ceciderunt Mon. Ver. Ven. for cecideret. — cecidere et Flor. 31 Camb.
589 pessum Nicc. B corr. for possum.
600 Adque Lach. for Idque. Imque Lamb. in the additions to ed. 3.
604 Subdit et hunc A Flor. 31 Camb. etc. Subdita et hunc BA corr. Nicc. Subdit athuc Lach. Subditat hunc Mar. Junt. Lamb. etc.
605 subtracta Nicc. for substructa.
608—638 are proved by Lach. to be quite unconnected with what precedes or follows. Mar. Junt. vulg. prefix this verse Nunc ratio reddenda augmen cur nesciat aequor.
609 Naturam Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. first for Natura.
614 adaugmen. ad augmen Nicc. followed by all mss. and eds. before Lach.
616 magnam sol Pont. Junt. for sol magnam. magnam partem sol Mar,
624 aequora, ventis Lach. for aequora venti. aequora ponti Nicc. vulg. perhaps rightly, as the words are often confused: comp. I 276: and ventis is somewhat awkward.
629 orbi Mar. Junt. for orbis. orbe Flor. 31 Camb. Avanc.
632 maris B corr. Pont. Mar. Junt. (not Flor. 31) for magis.
638 pede detulit A corr. for pede tulit.
641 mediocri clade coorta Is. Voss. in ms. notes for media grecia de coorta: a fine and certain correction. media de glade Vat. 1954 Othob. media de clade two Vat. Pius in notes, Nauger. Lamb. media quae clade Avanc. dia de clade Fab. Enceladi de clade Bentl. before he knew Vossius’ emendation.
642 Flammea Heins. in ms. notes for Flummae.
648 dispiciendum Nicc. for despiciendum.
652 corrupted by Mar. Junt. Lamb. etc.
653 propositum B corr. Ver. Ven. Mar. for propositus. — propositum est Flor. 31 Camb. — plane B corr. Flor. 31 Camb. Mon. for plani.
663 nobis Mar. Junt. Lamb. etc. for morbi which has come from 664. orbi Lach.
674 quivis est Bentl. for qui visus. quivis ut Heins. in ms. notes, and Is. Voss, in ms. notes. qui non est Lamb. estis added after ei by Flor. 31 Camb. one Vat. Lamb.
683 fere silicum A corr. Flor. 31 Camb. for feres illi cum.
687 contingit Flor. 31 Brix. Mar. for contigit.
690 Fert itaque Heins. in ms. notes and Lach. for Fert itque. — Fecitque Nicc. — Vertitque Is. Voss. in ms. notes.
695 resorbet Flor. 31 Camb. 3 Vat. Mar. for resolvet: a fine correction.
697 see Camb. Journ. of phil. 1 p. 40, where I said that at least one verse is here lost: in the smaller ed. I proposed a verse such as this, Fluctibus admiztam vim venti; intrareque ab isto: which will serve to shew the general meaniug. Lach. violently reads penitus percocta in apertum for penitus res cogit aperto.
701 vertice enim Turneb. advers. xxii 19, Is. Voss. in ms. notes, Bentl. for verticeni. Turneb. also proposes and seems to prefer vertigeni which Lamb. ed. 8 adopts from him. vertice item Mar. Ald. 1 Junt.
702 quod. quas Pont. Mar. Junt. Lamb. etc. wrongly: see Lach. III 94.
705 iacere Flor. 31 Camb. Brix. Mar. for iaceret.
708 nam neque Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. for namque.
710 Verum Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for Utrum. contigit et (eii) Is. Voss. in ms. notes for contioitel A, contioite B, contioites Nicc. two Vat.: a certain correction. concio dicat Flor. 31 two Vat. Ald. 1 Lamb. ed. 1 and 3. concio credat Camb. one Vat. Mon. Junt. Lamb. ed. 2.
719 flabra Flor. 31 Camb. Ver. Ven. for flabro.
727 amnt Mar. Junt. for amnis.
729 et AB Nicc. all Vat. Brix. Ver. Ven. eius Flor. 31 Camb. Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. vulg. before Lach.
730 quod Mar. Junt. rightly for quo, as tunc follows: but as Junt. writes it compendiously, no one before Lach. adopted it.
736 descendere Lamb. for decedere. — 140 quod. quo Lach.: I now think him wrong. quod…, nomen id Flor. 31 Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. vulg. before Wak. nomen aornis Gervas. Tilleberiensis: see Lach.
743 Remigii Mar. Junt., Remigi oblitae Lach. for Remigio oblitae.
746 substratus Brix. Avanc. Nauger., subiratus (substratus) Ver. Ven. for subiratus. Avernist Ed., Averno’st Lamb., for Averni. Lach. inserts est before si forte; but the passage he quotes in support is not more in point than the one he cites in favour of aut sex in IV 303 (327), the metre there ruling the order of the words.
747 Is B. His A Niec, acri sulpure Salmas. Heins. in nis, notes, Is. Voss. in ms. notes, Bentl. for ecri suiper: the readings of older editors are too absurd to mention. montes B, montis A Nicc. which is probably what Lucr. wrote, For montes…aucti Heins. suggests olentes…agri.
749 Estet. Est ut Lach. intolerant of et for etiam.
755 ope sufficit Ed. for opus efficit: a transposition of only two letters: comp. III 374. ví ibus officit Lach.: a harsh and inadmissible elision: see L. Mueller de re metr. p. 281. loci hoc opus Avanc. Lamb. suapte. sua vi Lamb.
759 si sint divis mactata. si fit divis mactatu’ Lach.: an awkward and uncalled-for change: see IV 934. fit seems hardly Latin, the structure of the sentence calling for a subjunctive.
761 effiant causis Lach. for e fiant causis: perhaps ecfiant. e causis fiant Flor. 31 Camb. 3 Vat. Mar. vulg. rightly perhaps.
762 ne forte his Ed. for ne poteis. ne potis A corr. Nicc.: perhaps is should be retained. puteis Turneb. Puteis Lach. i.e. Puteolanis: a quite unexampled form, and not I think suited to the context. ne potius Flor. 31 Camb. 2 Vat. Mar. etc.: hence Lamb. ne his Orci potius. ne posita hiis Wak.
763 post hinc. posta, hinc Mar. Junt. Lamb. etc.
764 inferne Lamb. for inferna.
768 nam de re nunc ipsa B. de re om. A: hence omitted or transposed in later mss. namque ipsa de re vulg.
771 cibo quae sunt Wak, first for cibo eque sunt. — homini quae sunt Lamb. etc.
777 auris Mar. (acc. to Victor. but not in ms.) Ald. 1 Junt. for auras.
778 aspera iactu Ed. for aspera tactu: iacere, adiectus are specially said of smell, as II 846 IV 673: comp. also II 1047. Bentl. defends tactu, perhaps rightly. aspera adactu Lach.: but adactu implies a violent thrust or effort, as of a weapon, a tooth. odore Lamb. ed. 2 and 3.
780 tristia Flor. 31 Camb. Mon. Ver. Ven. for tristitia.
788 ideo terris Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for indeo tris.
789 is rightly joined by Camb. Lamb. Gif. Wak. with 790. Creech Lach. etc. connect it with 788.
791 acri Lamb. ed. 2 first for aeris.
793 et spumas Madvig in Henrichsen de fragm. Gottorp. p. 37 for et pumos: spumas Lamb. found in marg. of cod. Memmian. Lach. puts this verse after 801 and reads et spumam ut perversely: older corrections are unworthy of notice.
798 labefactant Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. Ver. Ven. for labefaciant. 199 cunctare Lachb. for cunctere.
800 et laveris, solio Lach. for efflueris solio. et frueris solio Madv. 1. 1.: the passage is very doubtful.
803 aquam Flor. 31 Camb. Pont. Mar. Junt. for aqua.
804 membra domus Vat. 3276 Brix. Pius in notes, Gronov. Lach. for membra domnus. domin’ Nicc. dominus Ver. Ven. Nauger. donus Flor. 31 Camb. two Vat. membra domans Mar. Junt. Is. Voss. in ms. notes, Madv. 1.1. membra hominis Lamb. fervidw’, nervis Ed. ( fervida, nervis Wak.): the n of nervis was written over the line and wrongly attached to domus: hence dom-mus. fervidior vis Lach. for fervida servis A Nicc. fervida fervis B: fervida febris Lamb. Is. Voss. in ms. notes, Madv. ^ 805 viri Pius in notes, Lach. for vini.
806 ipsa Flor. 31 Camb. Pont. for ipso.
808 argenti Flor. 31 Camb. Mon. Pont. for argento.
813 audisve Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. for audire.
815 necessis Lach. for necessest.
817 apertum B. aperta A Nicc. vulg. before Lach. apertaque Flor. 31.
818 et. ea Lach. ever intolerant of et for etiam. alitibus Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. for malitbus.
829 fit. sit Junt. Lamb. vulg.: a solecism.
832 hic Mon. p. m. Lach. for kine. linquatur Flor. 31 Camb. Ver. Ven. Mar. for linquitur.
840 clearly something is wanting to connect this verse with what precedes. Lach. has proved that a new leaf, the 142nd, of the archetype began here: in all probability then one leaf had dropped out in this place. Lach. inserts four fragments, Non mihi si linguae centum sint oraque centum, Aerea voz. Mensibu’ frigus. Cameraeque caminis. Ne oblimet. The first certainly appears Lucretian: where it came in the poem, cannot be said; the rest are very doubtful.
840 Que is prefixed to Frigidior in A, «uae (i.e. quae) in B, Cur by Nicc.
841 Rarescit Lamb. for Arescit. semina Flor. 31 Camb. for semi. si quae Avanc. at end of Catullus for siqua which he kept in Ald. 1 as did all editors before Lach.
842 habet, propere Nicc. Camb. Mon. Ver. Ven. vulg. for habet proprie B Flor. 31, propriae A. proprii Bern. whom I followed in small ed. forgetting that Nicc., i.e. Poggio’s ms. in all likelihood, had propere.
846 «t coeundo Lamb. for in coeundo. in quo eundo Nicc.
857 supter Pont., subter Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for super.
858 satiare Vat. 1954 Othob. Pius in notes, Turneb. advers. xxvi 13 for soclare. sotiare Camb. Avanc. soldare Nicc. sociare Flor. 31 Mar. Junt. donare Bern.
862 Rara Lamb. Turneb. adv. xxvi 13 for Para. tepet Lach. for tenet.
864 umbris Mar. (ap. Victor., not in ms.). Avanc. at end of Catull., Junt. for undis.
865 penitus Lach. for sonitus. subtus Ald. l Junt. vulg. solito Mar.
868 agüae Lach. after Bede for laticis: Lamb. too notices it in notes. saporem Lamb. for vaporem: a necessary change, though Bede also has vaporem.
870 gliscente Wak. for miscente, ‘eleganter et vere’ says Lach.
877 Dimittat Camb. for Demittat.
878 nodosque Vat. 3276 Mon. (not Flor. 31) Pont. Ald. 1 Candidus at end of Junt. for nobosque. novosque A corr. venasque Flor. 31 Camb. 3 Vat. Mar. Junt.
879 Frigidus Flor. 31 Camb. Mon. Ver. Ven. for frigus.
887 Non ita multa Is. Voss. in ms. notes for Non ita muita: though Haverc. knew of this, neither he nor any editor before Lach. adopted it. Non tam vita Nicc. Non tam multa Pont, Non tam viva vulg.
888 Propterea Lach. for Praeterea.
890 marist Aradi fons Bern. Lach. for maris parat fons: a certain correction, as A and B have each this heading ‘de fonte aradi in mare’. mari Aradio fons Is. Voss. in ms. notes. mari spirat fons Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. etc.
889 conciliari Lamb. for conciliare.
892 praebet Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. Junt. for praeter.
894 dulcis Flor. 31 Camb. Ver. Ven. for dulcit.
896 quae Ven. (que mss. Brix. Ver.) rightly retained by N. P. Howard who corrects old punctuation. quo Lamb. vulgo Lach.
897 aut in tedai corpore Is. Voss. in ms. notes for aut indeda corpora: in tedai Pont. also. in teda cum corpora Mar. s. m. Ald. 1 Junt.
898 quia Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. for qui.
899 latentis Bern. for tenentes. tepentis Lach.
907 lapis B corr. Flor. 31 Camb. Pont. Mar. for lapsi.
908 Quem B corr. Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. for Quam.
909 fit. sit Nicc. Flor. 31 Mon. vulg. ‘parum Latine’ says Lach.: but it is I think defensible, as giving their motive, not the poet’s inference: comp. 11t 100 Harmoniam Grai quam dicunt, quod faciat nos. ortus. ortu Lach.as II 387.
912 Quinque B corr. Flor. 31 Mar. for Qui neque.
913 demissos Lamb. first for demisso.
916 permananter Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. for permanater. pervolat Turneb. adv. xxv1 13, Bentl. for pervalet. [925 ut. it Kannengiesser in Philologus 1v supplem. B p. 510.]
935 again om. by Lach.: see IV 229,
937 claret Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. for clare.
941 mirtum corpus Brix. (not Flor. 31) Pont. Mar. for corpus miztum.
942 superne Lach. for superna.
954 Galli Lach. for caeli. coli Nicc. colli Brix. Ver. Ven. Mar. Avanc. Nauger. Wak. corpus Mar. al. em. Junt. Lamb. ed. 1 and 2. corii Flor. 31 Camb. 3 Vat. Lamb. ed. 3.
955 956 I have transposed: comp. 1098 foll.: Lach. awkwardly puts it after 947: Bern. keeps it in its place and reads E tempestate in… coortast…remotas iure: but remotae clearly belongs to tempestate.
955 tempestate in Lach. for tempestatem. tempestates…coortae Avanc. followed by Nauger. Lamb. etc.
957 iure B Vienna frag. A corr. Flor. 31 Camb. all Vat. Pont. n re Nicc. which is the same thing. iurae A p. m. caused by remotae, or as Lach. says because the archetype had both iure and iura which he reads and I now read: see notes 2.
958 raro corpori’ nexu Lach. for raro corpore nexum.
962 sol Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. etc. for quo.
964 que added by Flor. 31 Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. extructas ningueis Avanc. at end of Catull. alte Extructas ningues Nauger.
965 liquefit. liquescit Vat. 610 Urbin. Ver. Ven. Ald. 1 Junt. (not Mar.) Lamb. ‘liquescit. s’ Heins. in ms. notes: but on this cod. Modii see introduction p. 24.
971 ambrosius Ed. for ambrosias. ambrosiae quasi vere et nectari? linctus Lach. elegantly, perhaps rightly.
972 Qua…amariu’ frondeat esca Lach. for Qua… marius fronde ac exscet A, extet B Vienn. fragm. Nicc.: amarius Flor. 31 Camb. two Vat. Mar.
973 amaracinum Mar. Junt. for maracinum.
977 iucunda Camb. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. Gif. for ciunda A, inunda B. iocunda Flor. 31 two Vat. munda Nicc. res munda Lamb.
986 987 alio, alioque, alio. alia, aliaque, alia Lamb.
991 lignis Wak. Lach. for ignis. tignis Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. per ligna Lamb.
997 (990) first placed here by Lamb. not Wak.
1001 pelliciat vim Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. for peliciatum B, perliceatum A.
1006 ferri Flor. 31 Camb. Pont. Mar. for ferre.
1007 fit utque Mar. Nauger. for fit ut qui.
1009 ex added by B corr. Flor. 31 Pont. Mar. tunc Camb.
1011 natura et Wak. for naturae.
1012 quod dico, ibus ex elementis Ed. for quod dicitur ex elementis. quo ducitur Lach. which I do not understand. quod paulo diximus ante Lamb. wildly. quod ducitur, [ex elementis] Bern.
1013 ‘ferro B Camb. Avanc. te ferro A. te ferre Nicc. whence referre Brix. Ver. Ven. de ferro Flor. 31 Mar. Junt. vulg. before Lach.
1018 ‘Flor. 31 Camb. for et. ex Mon. Ver. Ven.
1020 plagis Flor. 31 Camb. Pont. Mar. for plagit.
1022 1023 not a letter is to be changed: only the stopping is to be mended. item. wutei Lach. iuvatur. iuvetur Lach.; Wak. has been misled by a blunder of Haverc.
1025 magis Camb. Ver. Ven. Mar. for magnis. magis locus Flor. 31.
1026 (1033) first placed here in Ald. 1 and Junt. not by Pont. or Mar.
1027 Aer a tergo Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for Erat ergo.
1032 Parvas. Privas Gif. — Primas Lamb. ed. 3.
1040 ille Lach. for illo B Vienn. frag.: om. A Nicc. Camb. etc. atque Flor. 31 Mar. Junt. vulg. isque Wak. conj.
1047 ab saxo Lach. for a saxo.
1059 Et Lach. for At BA corr. Ad A p.m. Ac Nicc. Flor. 31 Camb. Mon. vulg.
1062 Interutrasque. Interutraque Lach.
1064 eam Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for eum. flumine Nicc. Flor. 31 all Vat. Brix. Ver. Ven. for flumina. flumina sazi Wak.
1067 singlariter Flor. 31 Pont. Avanc. Nauger. vulg. for singulariter: comp. 1088 coplata AB p. m. copulata corr. inter singillariter Lach.: a most unrhythmical verse. apta Flor. 31 Camb. etc. for aptam.
1068 vides Pont. Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. for vide. colescere Lach. for coolescere. coalescere Nicc. Flor. 31 3 Vat. Mon.
1069 uno Lach. for una, as in 1074: but Mar. Junt. Lamb. etc. there read una: uno i$ not certain.
1072 aqüai. in aquai Mar. Ald. 1 Junt. vulg. wrongly: comp. 552 and 868.
1077 eluere B corr. Vienn. frag. Mar. for eiuere B, eiuvere A Nicc.
1078 non auro res Faber em. for non res auro B, res auro A Nicc.
1079 Aerique aes Lamb. excellently for 4eraque.
1083 praestat B Avanc. Bentl. restat A Nicc. vulg.
1089 fieri Flor. 31 Camb. Mar. etc. for ferri.
1090 to 1191, ie. two leaves, are wanting in cod. Vietor. or Mon.: the readings of ‘Marul. given to these vss. I have taken from Victorius’ copy of Ven. spoken of in the introduction.
1091 cladem B. corr. Ald. 1 Junt. for cradem.
1099 extrinsecus B Ald. 1 Junt. intrinsecus A Nicc.
1100 coortae Lach. for coorta: but I am not sure it is necessary.
1101 putorem. putrorem Nauger. Lamb. etc.
1106 Brittanni Ed. for Brittannis. Britannum Lamb.
1109 colore Flor. 31 Vat. 640 Urbin. Ald. 1 Junt. for calore: so 722. percoctaque saecla calore Vat. 3276 Brix. Nauger. Lamb.
1115 Aegypto Flor. 31 Pont. Junt. for degypta. Aegypti Nicc. Ver. Ven.: hence Aegypti in medio Avanc.
1121 Ut Pont. Ald. 1 Junt. for Ve.
1122 graditur conturbat Flor. 31 Camb. Brix. Pont. for graditus conturbas. Quadragitas graditus conturbas Nicc. Ver. Ven.
1124 reddatque Flor. 31 Camb. Marul. for reddetque.
1132 balantibus Flor. 31 Marul. for calantibus. talaribus Nicc. old eds.
1135 witro Avanc. for vitro. intro Nicc. vitio Flor. 31 Camb. coruptum Flor. 31 Lamb. ed. 1, Wak. corumptum AB: corruptum Nicc. alienum Bentl. coortum Lach. inimicum lo. Colombinus ap. Lamb. cruentum joint emend. of Lamb. Turneb. and Auratus.
1138 mortifer aestus Macrob. sat. VI 2 7, Pont. Ald. 1 Junt. Lamb. for mortifer ae: the last letters having dropped out. mortifer aer Lamb. in notes. mortiferai Camb. morti’ ferai Lach. who is then driven to read in 1141 morbus for ortus: orcus Avanc.
1139 in Cecropis Macrob. 1. 1. Flor. 31 Camb. Pont. Junt. for in Cecropit. in Cecropiis A eorr. Nicc. Finibw’ Cecropiis Lamb.
1143 omnei Lach. omni Marul. Avanc. for omnem A Nicc. omne B. omnes Unde Junt., omnes Inde Brix, Nauger. Lamb. etc.
1147 atrae. atro Vat. 640 Urbin. Ald. 1 Junt. Lamb. artae mss. oi Macrob. VI 2 9.
1156 tum added by Wak. after prorsum. Flor. 31 Ver. Ven. vulg. add et before omne, perhaps rightly.
1165 potius Marul, Ald. 1 Junt. for totius.
1167 dum. cum A corr. Nicc. vulg. before Lach.
1171 Vertere in utilitatem Lamb. for verteret utilitatem: but he reads also posset and suggests quicquam in 1170 without cause. at ventum Lach. for ad ventum which the older editors keep and connect with what follows: Lucr. prob. wrote ad for ut, frigora Flor. 31 Camb. Marul. for frigore.
1174 (1178) brought here first by Nauger.: placed after 1171 by Marul. Junt. /ymphis Flor. 31 Camb. Marul. for nymphis.
1176 mersans A Nicc. inerrans B. messans Vienn. frag. acc. to Rhein. mus. n. f. xv p. 409. inwrens Bern.: but clearly B’s reading is a mere clerical error.
1178 mali mss. of Macrob. VI 2 13, Brix. for mari.
1180 ardentia morbis. ac nuntia mortis Lach.: a fine, but not I think necessary emendation.
1186 spiritus Macrob. Flor. 31 Camb. Pont. for spiritum.
1187 umor, lwumor mss. of Macrob. VI 2 11 for wmum.
1189 raucas mss. of Maer. Pont. Avanc. for rauca. tussi Marul. Junt. for tusse. tussis mss. of Maer.
1195 in ore trucei Ed. for inoretiacet B Vienn, frag. inhoretiacet A. — inhorret iacet Nicc.: the -et is the common corruption of the old termination -ei; comp. 16 coget for cogei and 1199; so I 84 mss. Triviat, II 636 Armat et. rictum Lamb. for rectum. Duratusque horret rictus Vat. 3276. inhorrescens rictum Lach. after Rutgersius. inhorrebat rictum Lamb. in ore iacens rictu Nonius. tenta tumebat Heins. in ms. notes and Lach. for tenta mebat. tecta meabat Nicc. tenta meabat Flor. 31 Camb. 2 Vat. Mon. tenta manebat Nonius B corr. Vat. 3276.
1196 rigidi Lach. for vigida. post artus. post strati Lamb. prostrati Pont. Junt.
1199 ibei Ed. for ut est: ibei became first iuet, then ut est: see n. to 1195. vix Lach. without force.
1200 Ulceribus Lamb. after Thucydides for Viceribus: i and I confused as in 500 other places: so 1271 Viceribus, Visceribus A corr. Nicc. vulg. here as there. Wak. in both places argues for visceribus; but A and B 1166 had Et simul viceribus; 1148 Sanguine et viceribus; V 995 super vicerat tetra, viscera A corr.; IV 1068 Vicus enim, Ulcus A corr.: thus in every place where the word occurs in Lucr. our sole original authority substituted i for !: this may serve to shew on what sandy foundations Wak. builds, when he maintains iacere coniectum umorem against conlectum, and fifty suchlike cases.
1212 his Mon. Brix. Junt. for iis. s Flor. 31 Camb. incesserat Lamb. for incusserat.
1217 exeiret Lach., exiret Brix. for exciret.
1219 solibus. sedibus Maerob. VI 2 14, Brix. Pont. Junt,
1220 nec tristia Macrob. 1. 1., Brix. Pont. Avanc. for nectia. mec fortia Flor. 31 Camb. 2 Vat. Mar, Junt. mec noctibw Lamb. Pont. proposes also agrestia; and Mar. in marg. Ven. inertia. mec noxia Is. Voss. in ms. notes, Heins, in ms. notes, who also proposes nec inertia.
1221 Exeibant Lach. for Ezicbant A, Exibant B, Exiebant Nicc.
1225 in my small ed. I placed before 1235: I still think that the poet’s words would thereby be rendered more consecutive; but I now see that 1235 should not be severed from 1234, Lucr. having misapprehended a sentence of Thucydides: I have therefore now left 1225 in its place, as an imperfect fragment: see notes 2.
1234 amittebat B rightly. imitiebat A. mittebat Nicc. whence much error.
1235 apisci Flor. 31 Camb. Brix. Pont. Mar. for apiscit.
1237 (1245) placed here by Bentl. after Thucyd.: Mar. Junt. Lamb. etc. put it after 1242 (1241).
1239 visere Flor. 31 Camb. for utsere.
1241 Poenibat Turneb. ap. Lamb. for Poenibus at (i.e. Poenib. at) B, Poenibus et A Nicc. etc.: comp. V 1071.
1242 incuria Flor. 31, in curia Brix. Ver. Ven. for incura.
1247 one or more verses are evidently lost here, or the passage was left in an unfinished state.
1249 in lectum Mar. Junt. for iniectum: in letum Mar. p. m. in Mon. and Victorii Ven.
1250 morbus Flor. 31 Camb. Mon. for morbo.
1259 ex agris is maeror Ed. for ex agris maeroris. is was absorbed by agris; then maeroris was written to fill up the verse.
1260 Confluzit, languens. Confluxit labes Lach.: a violent alteration.
1262 conplebant. complebat Junt. not Pont. or Mar., complebant Lamb. for condiebant. condebant A corr, Nicc. aestus. astu Lach. aestus however agrees so entirely with the words of Thucydides, that I think a verse has fallen out such as quo magis aestus Conficiebat eos cet. aestu Mar. Junt. Bern.
1264 protracta Lach. for prostrata: Wak. reads structa for strata in 1265.
1265 iacebant Ver. Ven. for tacebant. tace-bant Nicc. with i written over t: hence, while Flor. 31 Camb. etc. keep tacebant, Ver. Ven. which usually adhere to the older text of Nicc., have the corrected reading.
1271 Ulceribus Lamb. first for Viceribus. Visceribus A corr. Nicc. Flor.